LUNARC - Center for Scientific and Technical Computing at Lund University. Part of Swedish infrastructure SNIC

Infrastructure

    Infrastructure Details

    Name of national/international infrastructure this infrastructure belongs to

    LUNARC provides resources to the WLCG consortium via
    SNIC.

    Description

    The center provides computational, storage and
    visualisation resources and expertise for Lund University
    and on a national level in Sweden
    Lunarc has been in operation since 1986. As of 2003, the
    services are synchronized with five other centers within
    the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing, SNIC.

    Equipment and resources

    LUNARC operates an high-performance computing
    facility, Aurora, which provides over 6000 cores. In
    addition to this LUNARC also provides ~3 Petabytes of
    storage resources for SNIC and LU researchers. LUNARC also provides GPU-resources for computing and
    visualization.

    Services provided

    Provider of high performance compute, storage and
    visualization resources for Swedish academia.

    Management of the infrastructure

    LUNARC has a board appointed by Lund University. Day
    to day operations are handled by a director and a deputy
    director.

    UKÄ subject classification

    • Engineering and Technology

    Type of infrastructure

    • Equipment
    • Services

    Infrastructure programme

    • Infrastructure of national interest (Swedish Research Council)