New Agreement Strengthens Collaboration on DeiC Interactive HPC

Shortly before Christmas 2025, DeiC and the Interactive HPC Consortium entered into a new five-year agreement on the national HPC service, with an annual budget of DKK 10 million. At the same time, the DeiC Board decided to invest a one-off amount of DKK 4 million in expanded GPU capacity. This additional investment has made it possible to significantly upgrade the facility. The upgrade strengthens opportunities for research projects working with large datasets and AI, while also providing better opportunities to use GPU resources more broadly.

In spring 2026, the consortium will establish a new energy-efficient data centre that will house the hardware for DeiC Interactive HPC. Danfoss and HPE are participating in the establishment of the data centre, which is described here.

“Through the new agreement, we are strengthening a shared national research infrastructure that gives researchers across Denmark easy access to advanced computing power. This is an important step for both digitalisation and digital sovereignty in Danish research. At the same time, the collaboration between the universities demonstrates that we can jointly develop solutions that are both technologically strong and sustainable – not least through the establishment of an energy-efficient data centre,” says Professor Claudio Pica, coordinator of the Interactive HPC Consortium.

Collaboration and development in focus

With the new contracts, DeiC and the Interactive HPC Consortium continue and expand a strong and trusted partnership. The long-term nature of the agreements and the strengthened financial framework reflect a solid collaboration and a shared commitment to developing the solution in close dialogue with users and DeiC’s professional forums. The aim is a solution that evolves in line with researchers’ needs and priorities.

At the same time, the agreements build on the service’s high level of security and strengthen the already well-established framework for reporting on usage and operations. Finally, the partners have established clear shared expectations regarding the handling of future development work and system integrations.

Acting Head of HPC at DeiC, Rune Gamborg Ørum, sees the new agreement as an important step forward:

“Beyond the opportunities offered by the new facility itself, I am pleased that our joint work on the contracts has also created a clear collaborative structure around the service. This will make a real difference for users, as it allows us to work together to support the many different ways researchers use DeiC Interactive HPC.”

In February 2026, the partners met in Aarhus for a joint workshop focusing on putting the agreement into practice and ensuring a well-functioning collaboration on technical development, user support and training activities in the coming years. Among other things, participants discussed how existing users can transition smoothly to the new data centre and the new GPU resources.