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The initials “CISM” stand for “Calcul Intensif et Stockage de Masse”, or high-performance computing and mass storage. It was created in 2004 at UCLouvain by the users of the HPC facilities coming from different Departments in the University. The CISM operates the scientific computing clusters and the scientific data storage systems installed at UCLouvain, organizes and delivers training sessions about HPC targeted at researchers and offers consultancy and expertise in code porting, optimization, compilation, etc.

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  • 28 May 2026
    The 15th CECI users meeting took place on May 21st
    The 15th CECI users meeting took place on Thursday, 21 May 2026, 13h-18h at UNamur.  You can have a look to the Technicals talks and the Users Contributions. 
  • 9 March 2026
    New 2025 CISM annual report available
    Every year, around mid-March, we publish our activity report, written in French. You must be authenticated to have access to those Activity Reports.
  • 4 June 2026
    Next CUCISM September 14th, 2026 2PM
    The next meeting of the members of the Board, CUCISM ( "Comité des Utilisateurs") is scheduled for September 14st 2026 2pm (location will be specified).Your representative can report your inquiry or p
  • 4 June 2026
    CISM Newsletter 26.02
    The topics are : Maintenance week end of June !!
  • 13 December 2023
    Technology platform news: CISM welcomes Lemaitre4
    New computing cluster at CISM: twice the power CISM welcomes Lemaitre4, its new computing cluster It will offer more than 5,000 computing cores, a hyper-fast network and storage, with performance mo