Mission statement

Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) is a metacentre dedicated to Swedish researchers and their requirements. SNIC's mandate is to provide unified access to the leading supercomputers in Sweden. SNIC is responsible for the strategic and scientific development and funding of high performance computing resources in Sweden.

SNIC's task is to:

	Provide long term funding for high performance computing resources in Sweden
	Coordinate national investments in hardware
	Coordinate competence profiles between Sweden's existing supercomputer centers so that resources are used and developed optimally, thus providing improved user support and operational services
	Have a development mission for:
	-	Computers
	-	Grid
	-	Storage
	-	Network
	-	Visualisation
	Disseminate information and knowledge on the computing environments and applications which are being developed
	Host the national graduate school in scientific computing (NGSSC)