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Celebration honouring Gert Svensson's contributions to Swedish HPC

Friends, collaborators and colleagues: Please register by 22 April and join us for this celebration!

Gert with the CM-200 (which was the upgraded version of the first ever system at PDC) in 1991

Gert Svensson has been a key figure and veteran leader of Sweden’s high-performance computing community for many decades. PDC warmly invites colleagues, collaborators, and friends to a celebration honouring his work as he steps back from his role as Deputy Director of the PDC Centre for High Performance Computing (PDC) at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) to the role of Technical Director at PDC. Gert will be continuing in his role as Deputy Technical Director at the National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden (NAISS).

Time: Mon 2025-04-28 15.00

Location: Teknikringen 1, KTH Innovations Community Space, KTH main campus, Stockholm

Contact:

Rossen Apostolov
Rossen Apostolov researcher

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Register by 22 April

To attend this celebration, register at forms.gle/foMfJEPpYqy4UtX3A  by Tuesday 22nd April. (The registraton is very simple and is mainly for catering purposes.)

About Gert's work for HPC

Gert has worked at KTH since 1981. From the start, he worked at the Computer Systems group, which operated the first UNIX system at KTH and the second in Sweden. In the mid-1980s, he initiated and implemented the setup of KTH on the Internet.

Gert has been with the PDC Centre for High Performance Computing at KTH since its founding in 1990 as the first employee, playing a central role in shaping the centre into a world-class research facility. Over the past three decades, Gert has been a driving force behind Sweden’s progress in parallel and high-performance computing. As Deputy Director of PDC, Gert oversaw the deployment of world-class supercomputers like Bellman and Strindberg up to and including PDC's latest supercomputer, Dardel, as well as the unique six-sided Virtual Reality (VR) cube.

Gert with the Lindgren system and its world-leading heat exchange system at PDC in 2012

Gert initiated and participated in many national and international collaborations and championed initiatives focused on energy efficiency and sustainability in HPC. His vision helped establish PDC as a leading centre in Sweden and the European HPC ecosystem. In the past year, Gert has also contributed at the national level as Deputy Technical Director for NAISS, mainly working as a project leader in the procurement and setup of the Swedish EuroHPC system Arrhenius.

Let’s come together to celebrate Gert’s career and lasting legacy!

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