SNIC Review

The Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) is a national research infrastructure that makes available large scale high performance computing resources, storage capacity, and advanced user support, for Swedish researchers. SNIC is a consortium of 10 universities, with Uppsala University as host organisation. SNIC is funded by the Swedish Research Council for the period 2018–2022. In 2020, the Council for Research Infrastructure commissioned a review of SNIC by an international panel. This report contains the panel’s findings and recommendations.

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