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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 providing resources for 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.
AI chatbot and MCP services for C3SE document¶
- Chalmers AI Chatbot
- C3SE bot: also provides the embedded chat window in this page
- C3SE MCP server:
https://www.c3se.chalmers.se/api/mcpfor users who want to integrate into their own agents
All the services use the public information from the site.
Current resources¶
- Vera: compute cluster for local users.
- Alvis: GPU cluster for national and local users (retired).
- Cephyr: CephFS based center storage connected to Vera
- Cephyr S3: Ceph based, S3-compatible object storage, available worldwide
- Mimer: Flash based fast storage connected to Vera
- Cirrus: OpenStack based cloud resource (coming soon, contact us for info)
- Disa: Kubernetes based container solution (coming soon, contact us for info)
News and upcoming events ¶
| Date | Text |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-01 | Significant amount of GPU resources from the retired Alvis has been moved into Vera. In total an additional 80 T4, 120 A40, and 144 A100 GPUs are available for Vera users. |
| 2026-08-19 20:30:00 | Due to unexpected issue with external cooling in the Alvis computer hall, most of Alvis and Vera GPU nodes are shutdown. Operation will resume as soon as possible. |
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 implementation 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.