UPPMAX as an organization

UPPMAX is a provider of HPC infrastructure that is physically located in Uppsala.

Where can I find an overview of UPPMAX?

One can find an overview of UPPMAX here

Here we place UPPMAX within the bigger, national, picture, starting from the biggest source of money for research in Sweden.

Vetenskapsrådet ('Science counsel', VR) is biggest funder of research in Sweden and funds the national HPC infrastructure.

The National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden (NAISS) provides such HPC infrastructure: computing power, storage and data services. Applications for these resources starts at this NAISS page. These resources are physically located in multiple places in Sweden, among other Uppsala.

Uppsala Multidisciplinary Center for Advanced Computational Science (UPPMAX = UppMACS) provides the HPC infrastructure that is physically located in Uppsala. Part of this is to provide training and support.

flowchart TD
    HPC_Sweden(HPC in Sweden)
    HPC_others(HPC in other cities)
    HPC_Uppsala(HPC in Uppsala)
    NAISS(NAISS)
    UPPMAX(UPPMAX)
    UU(Uppsala University)
    Users(Users)
    VR(Vetenskapsrådet)

    VR --> |money| HPC_Sweden
    HPC_Sweden -->|done by| NAISS
    NAISS --> |money| HPC_others
    NAISS --> |money| HPC_Uppsala
    HPC_Uppsala -->|done by| UPPMAX
    UU -->|money| HPC_Uppsala
    Users -->|apply for HPC|NAISS