Case Study: UiT The Arctic University of Norway achieves the world’s most efficient data center and campus heat reuse with Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s HPE Apollo 8000 System

UiT The Arctic University of Norway Pushes Hyperscale Efficiency

UiT The Arctic University of Norway, the world’s northernmost university in Tromsø, needed massive high‑performance computing to support climate, environmental and Arctic research while meeting strict sustainability goals. To deliver extreme compute density and energy efficiency, the university selected Hewlett Packard Enterprise and deployed the HPE Apollo 8000 System for its Stallo supercomputer.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise implemented the HPE Apollo 8000’s dense, warm‑water liquid‑cooled racks (up to 144 servers per rack) with InfiniBand fabric and the Apollo 8000 System Manager, plus HPE consulting and support. The result is higher compute power and simplified management, with waste heat captured to warm campus buildings—improving power and cooling efficiency (liquid cooling is cited as far more efficient than air) and reducing energy use and CO2 emissions, helping UiT move toward being the world’s most efficient data center.

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Roy Dragseth

Team Leader for HPC