“Its a paradigm shift” - The inauguration of KCSC

Anders Söderholm, president of KTH officially opened the center by cutting a blue and yellow ribbon.
– This marks the starting point of a strategically important initiative in scientific software development and computational research, where KTH played a leading role, said Anders Söderholm.

Patrick Norman, professor at KTH and director of KCSC then presented KCSC’s vision and mission, and described how the centre would support research across schools and disciplines.

Among other speakers, Philipp Schlatter, Prof. FAU, Erlangen talked about the software Neko with which you can simulate how turbulence works around, for example, airplane wings.

Sweden well positioned in software

Erik Lindahl, director of NAISS (The National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden) talked about the future of HPC and AI infrastructure in Sweden and Europe. He emphasized that Sweden is unlikely to rank among the top ten countries in the world in terms of supercomputing hardware capacity, but that software is a different matter.

Sweden is well positioned in software and KTH is already very good at this. Set sail! he encouraged the audience.

Anders Söderholm also noted that KCSC deepens relationships between academia, industry and the public sector. And he also stressed that KCSC is both for researchers and students.

– KCSC is a meeting place where they further strengthen KTH’s role in the rapid development of software, in global competition, and in societal development at large.