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C3SE is the Chalmers e-Commons e-Infrastructure group at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg Sweden. C3SE is also a part of the national metacenter National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden, NAISS.

User information and documentation

If you would like to use our facilities, please have a look at our first-time users page. More information on how to use our systems can be found under the "Documentation" tab in the left panel.

Current systems

  • PC-cluster Vera for local users.
  • PC-cluster with GPU accelerators Alvis for national and local users.

C3SE is also part of Swedish Science Cloud and Swestore

News

Date Text
2025-04-07 A number of issues is happening on Mimer filesystem. All jobs may be affected by I/O errors. We are actively working on it.
2025-03-26 Operation of Alvis is now resuming.
2025-03-26 Due to sudden loss of external cooling in the Alvis computer hall, all Alvis nodes are shutdown. Operation will resume as soon as possible.
2025-03-12 The vera1 login node has unknown likely hardware problems. Please prefer vera2 login node while we work on the problems.
2025-03-12 The Icelake nodes in Vera has now been updated to Rocky Linux 9.
2025-01-30 The Zen4 expansion of Vera will go live. All Vera login nodes will be down during the day for the swap to the new login nodes under the same names. See Vera Zen4 news page for all details.

Current and upcoming events

Date Text
2025-04-10 Introduction seminar for Alvis users. In this online seminar we will show you how to use Alvis. Registration required: https://indico.chalmers.se/event/283/
2025-02-05 Special introduction seminar for Vera users in lecture hall MVH12 at department of Mathematics at 13:15-15:00. Register here if you are coming in person. This hybrid seminar can also be joined via Zoom here without registration.

Acknowledgement suggestion

The recommended way to acknowledge e-Commons/C3SE (e.g. projects on Vera) is:

The computations/data handling/[SIMILAR] were/was enabled by resources provided by Chalmers e-Commons at Chalmers.

If applicable, also add an acknowledgement for application support:

"[NAME] at Chalmers e-Commons is acknowledged for assistance concerning technical and implementational aspects [OR SIMILAR] in making the code run on the [OR SIMILAR] Chalmers e-Common resources."

or

"We thank [NAME] at Chalmers e-Commons for [his/her] assistance with [describe tasks such as porting, code optimization, etc.]"

The recommended way to acknowledge SNIC/NAISS (e.g. projects on Alvis or other SNIC/NAISS resources) can be found on the NAISS homepage.