Infrastructure and Cloud data centre test Environment (SICS ICE)

The mission is to contribute to Sweden being at the absolute forefront regarding competence in sustainable and efficient datacenter solutions, cloud applications and data analysis. This will be accomplished by increasing innovation capability, helping product and service companies excel, as well as attracting more researchers and companies to Sweden to make the business branch even stronger nationally.



ICE consists of three datacenter pods, where one has an optimized and stable physical environment optimized for IT/cloud-related applications, and one is a flexible construction optimized for facility/utility testing. The ICE facility is operated and owned by RISE SICS North.



The test facility will offer access to a unique environment for testing, demos and experiments.



The ICE offer covers all parts of the stack;

• Big data and machine learning – Computing capacity, platforms and tools for handling big data and machine learning

• IT and cloud – testing and experiment environments for software development, scaling and infrastructure optimization

• Facility and IT HW – possibilities for testing disruptive innovations concerning the facility and hardware of a datacenter

• Utility – measurements and research securing a sustainable society with efficient datacenters as a part of the energy system



Read more about our ongoing research projects at https://www.sics.se/groups/rise-sics-north#projects