Swedish AI supercomputer becomes twice as powerful

Published 15 June 2024 at 09.34

Domestic. The Berzelius supercomputer, which is at Linköping University, is used for research in, among other things, artificial intelligence. In the autumn, the supercomputer will be upgraded to double the capacity.

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The national AI supercomputer Berzelius has enabled breakthroughs in a number of disciplines. For example, the system has been used to train the Swedish large language model GPT-SW3, enabled research on protein folding, trained new systems for computer vision, and been used to generate synthetic medical images for training doctors.

Berzelius is an NVIDIA Superpod which is equipped with 94 DGX A100 systems with 8 A100 GPUs per node.

Now the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has granted SEK 125 million for an upgrade to the latest GPU architecture in autumn 2024.

– The increasing demand and growing applications of AI make an upgrade of Berzelius absolutely necessary, says Peter Wallenberg Jr, chairman of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, in a statement.

The upgrade is being made to support both existing and new user groups.

– With an upgrade of Berzelius and the new supercomputer Arrhenius soon in place, we are equipped to make a decisive contribution to European research. We are positioning Sweden in Europe, says Rector Jan-Ingvar Jönsson at Linköping University.

Berzelius is named after the prominent scientist Jacob Berzelius from East Goth.