News

Currently longer response time on tickets
Due to staff unavailability support tickets can take longer to resolve than usual. We are working on answering them as quickly as we can. We are expecting the situation to get better in a couple of weeks. The LUNARC Team

All COSMOS GPU nodes returned to user service
All COSMOS GPU nodes have now been returned to user service. Apologies for any inconvenice the unscheduled downtime of the GPU nodes caused for your work.

LUNARC and COSMOS user event at the LU eScience Hub, 12 September
This upcoming LU eScience Hub event on Friday, September 12, which will spotlight LUNARC, Lund University’s advanced computing facility, and in particular the COSMOS system. This event will provide both technical insights and user perspectives, offering an excellent opportunity to learn more about how COSMOS can support your research. Visit the [...]

CodeRefinery workshop on software develpment tools in September/October 2025
The CodeRefinery (https://coderefinery.org/) series of workshops could be of interest to those engaged in developing and maintaining research codes. These workshops focus on tools used for code development, code testing, software deployment, software licensing and many things more. The material is distributed onto a number of online workshops [...]

Limited availablity of COSMOS GPU nodes
Due to ongoing cooling issues, most COSMOS GPU nodes are currently unavailable. Currently there are currently only two nodes with NVIDIA A100 cards and Intel processors available for GPU computing. Check the LUNARC user guide for instructions on how to use these nodes using the batch system. Unfortunately long queueing times are expected. [...]

Mondays with Matlab 2025
Does your project involve large computations or training Machine Learning and Deep Learning models? Are you interested in speeding up your code by harnessing a High-Performance Computing (HPC) resource near you? MathWorks is partnering with NAISS Sweden, DTU Denmark, CSC Finland, NRIS Norway, IHPC Iceland and RTU HPC, Latvia to bring you a three [...]

Issues with desktop icons and file browsing on the LUNARC Desktop
We are investigating issues with desktop icons and file browsers on the LUNARC desktop. Running jobs and command-line access are not affected. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

File system issues on COSMOS-SENS
We are currently experiencing file system issues on COSMOS-SENS. Occasionally compute nodes drop the connection to the file system and the job will terminate without writing any further output. Loosing connection appears to happen at random. Some jobs succeed while others fail. The COSMOS system is not affected by the issue. For urgent work [...]

The NAISS User Forum 1-2 October is open for registration
The deadline for registration is 15 August