CSCS - Swiss National Supercomputing Centre
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CSCS, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, develops and promotes technical and scientific services in high-performance computing. #weareAlps
We’ve heard the rumors… 🍫👀
Will there be chocolate at our booth at #SC25 this year? Let’s just say… some traditions are too sweet to let go of...
Join us at the booth #498 — we’ve found a sweet way to keep the tradition alive! #StayTuned #SweetSurprises #hpc
Will there be chocolate at our booth at #SC25 this year? Let’s just say… some traditions are too sweet to let go of...
Join us at the booth #498 — we’ve found a sweet way to keep the tradition alive! #StayTuned #SweetSurprises #hpc
November 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We’ve heard the rumors… 🍫👀
Will there be chocolate at our booth at #SC25 this year? Let’s just say… some traditions are too sweet to let go of...
Join us at the booth #498 — we’ve found a sweet way to keep the tradition alive! #StayTuned #SweetSurprises #hpc
Will there be chocolate at our booth at #SC25 this year? Let’s just say… some traditions are too sweet to let go of...
Join us at the booth #498 — we’ve found a sweet way to keep the tradition alive! #StayTuned #SweetSurprises #hpc
🚀 #CSCS is heading to #SC25 in St. Louis! Come meet our team at Booth #498 (November 17–20) and discover the latest in Swiss supercomputing and HPC innovation: www.cscs.ch/publications... #hpc
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 AM
🚀 #CSCS is heading to #SC25 in St. Louis! Come meet our team at Booth #498 (November 17–20) and discover the latest in Swiss supercomputing and HPC innovation: www.cscs.ch/publications... #hpc
Scientists from EPFL & CHUV used supercomputing to map the brain regions behind walking recovery after spinal cord injury. Their work led to the development of a deep-brain stimulation therapy that helped patients walk again in a pilot study. Amazing, right? Read more: www.cscs.ch/science/life...
October 23, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Scientists from EPFL & CHUV used supercomputing to map the brain regions behind walking recovery after spinal cord injury. Their work led to the development of a deep-brain stimulation therapy that helped patients walk again in a pilot study. Amazing, right? Read more: www.cscs.ch/science/life...
🗓️ 📢 Deadline Alert: Proposals for the CSCS National Call (allocation period starting 1 April 2026) must be submitted no later than Monday, 27 October 2025, at 17:00 CET! Don't miss out! www.cscs.ch/publications... #callforproposals #alps
October 23, 2025 at 6:46 AM
🗓️ 📢 Deadline Alert: Proposals for the CSCS National Call (allocation period starting 1 April 2026) must be submitted no later than Monday, 27 October 2025, at 17:00 CET! Don't miss out! www.cscs.ch/publications... #callforproposals #alps
🎉 15 Years Since the First Stone of CSCS in Lugano! 🏗️15 years ago, we laid the first stone of #CSCS in Lugano — a bold new chapter after our beginnings in Manno. Since then, we’ve built the future of supercomputing in Switzerland: innovation, sustainability & discovery youtu.be/qExgRHS_7KI?...
October 17, 2025 at 8:24 AM
🎉 15 Years Since the First Stone of CSCS in Lugano! 🏗️15 years ago, we laid the first stone of #CSCS in Lugano — a bold new chapter after our beginnings in Manno. Since then, we’ve built the future of supercomputing in Switzerland: innovation, sustainability & discovery youtu.be/qExgRHS_7KI?...
For the first time, researchers at @ethz.ch have simulated a 42,000-atom silicon nanoribbon transistor with unprecedented accuracy using the Frontier and #Alps supercomputers — the largest of their kind. Their work has earned a Gordon Bell Prize 2025 nomination: bit.ly/3KR9E8c #hpc #wearealps
October 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
For the first time, researchers at @ethz.ch have simulated a 42,000-atom silicon nanoribbon transistor with unprecedented accuracy using the Frontier and #Alps supercomputers — the largest of their kind. Their work has earned a Gordon Bell Prize 2025 nomination: bit.ly/3KR9E8c #hpc #wearealps
Powered by Switzerland’s Piz Daint supercomputer at #CSCS, researchers created the largest-ever simulation of the Universe — mapping 3.4 billion virtual galaxies for ESA’s Euclid mission. Discover more: www.cscs.ch/science/phys...
October 8, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Powered by Switzerland’s Piz Daint supercomputer at #CSCS, researchers created the largest-ever simulation of the Universe — mapping 3.4 billion virtual galaxies for ESA’s Euclid mission. Discover more: www.cscs.ch/science/phys...
#CSCS ran a massive HPC and Kubernetes infrastructure with just two engineers. With SUSE Rancher Prime + Virtualization
they achieved:
✅ 80% less management time
⚡ 70% faster deployments
🔒 Rock-solid reliability
Lean team - Enterprise-scale impact. Discover more:
👉 okt.to/AHI4Yf @suse.com
they achieved:
✅ 80% less management time
⚡ 70% faster deployments
🔒 Rock-solid reliability
Lean team - Enterprise-scale impact. Discover more:
👉 okt.to/AHI4Yf @suse.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
#CSCS ran a massive HPC and Kubernetes infrastructure with just two engineers. With SUSE Rancher Prime + Virtualization
they achieved:
✅ 80% less management time
⚡ 70% faster deployments
🔒 Rock-solid reliability
Lean team - Enterprise-scale impact. Discover more:
👉 okt.to/AHI4Yf @suse.com
they achieved:
✅ 80% less management time
⚡ 70% faster deployments
🔒 Rock-solid reliability
Lean team - Enterprise-scale impact. Discover more:
👉 okt.to/AHI4Yf @suse.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:41 AM
A world-first: global climate simulations now run at 1.25 km resolution 🌍 A major step for climate science + a nomination for the Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling:
👉 www.cscs.ch/science/comp... #climate #gordonbell #prize
👉 www.cscs.ch/science/comp... #climate #gordonbell #prize
September 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
A world-first: global climate simulations now run at 1.25 km resolution 🌍 A major step for climate science + a nomination for the Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling:
👉 www.cscs.ch/science/comp... #climate #gordonbell #prize
👉 www.cscs.ch/science/comp... #climate #gordonbell #prize
#AI models and the data centres behind them use huge amounts of energy. How serious is the problem—and what can we do? We asked ETH Zürich’s Ana Klimovic, who shares why AI often wastes #GPU power and how to boost efficiency: www.cscs.ch/science/comp...
September 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
#AI models and the data centres behind them use huge amounts of energy. How serious is the problem—and what can we do? We asked ETH Zürich’s Ana Klimovic, who shares why AI often wastes #GPU power and how to boost efficiency: www.cscs.ch/science/comp...
EPFL, ETH Zurich, and CSCS released Apertus, Switzerland's first large-scale, multilingual language model (LLM). As a fully open LLM, it serves as a building block for developers and organizations to create their own applications: www.cscs.ch/science/comp... @ethz.ch #AI #Apertus #AIforGood
September 2, 2025 at 8:14 AM
EPFL, ETH Zurich, and CSCS released Apertus, Switzerland's first large-scale, multilingual language model (LLM). As a fully open LLM, it serves as a building block for developers and organizations to create their own applications: www.cscs.ch/science/comp... @ethz.ch #AI #Apertus #AIforGood
For the first time, PSI will use CSCS’s Alps supercomputer for remote computing. This milestone shows how #Alps brings cloud-like flexibility to HPC, letting PSI scale resources on demand. Discover more: www.cscs.ch/science/comp...
August 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
For the first time, PSI will use CSCS’s Alps supercomputer for remote computing. This milestone shows how #Alps brings cloud-like flexibility to HPC, letting PSI scale resources on demand. Discover more: www.cscs.ch/science/comp...
Scientists have debated whether Earth’s magnetic field existed when its core was still fully liquid for over a century. Now, a team of geophysicists has used simulations run on #PizDaint supercomputer at #CSCS to show it likely did 🌍 Discover more: www.cscs.ch/science/eart...
August 4, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Scientists have debated whether Earth’s magnetic field existed when its core was still fully liquid for over a century. Now, a team of geophysicists has used simulations run on #PizDaint supercomputer at #CSCS to show it likely did 🌍 Discover more: www.cscs.ch/science/eart...
At #PASC25, Elisa Molinari shared how community materials science codes boost scientific progress and energy efficiency. In this interview, she explains why energy-aware coding matters—and how ML + predictive simulations are changing the game: www.cscs.ch/science/comp...
August 4, 2025 at 7:59 AM
At #PASC25, Elisa Molinari shared how community materials science codes boost scientific progress and energy efficiency. In this interview, she explains why energy-aware coding matters—and how ML + predictive simulations are changing the game: www.cscs.ch/science/comp...
#CSCS is delighted to invite you to the “2025 CSCS User Lab Day Meet the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre”, which will take place on Friday, August 29, 2025, at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – Social Work: www.cscs.ch/publications... #userlab #users #alps
July 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
#CSCS is delighted to invite you to the “2025 CSCS User Lab Day Meet the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre”, which will take place on Friday, August 29, 2025, at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – Social Work: www.cscs.ch/publications... #userlab #users #alps
ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the #Alps supercomputer at #CSCS, the new LLM marks a milestone in open-source AI and multilingual excellence: www.cscs.ch/science/comp...
July 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the #Alps supercomputer at #CSCS, the new LLM marks a milestone in open-source AI and multilingual excellence: www.cscs.ch/science/comp...
What does sustainability mean in the age of #AI? At #PASC25, 400+ global researchers met in Switzerland to explore how supercomputing can drive environmental and social progress while shrinking its own footprint. Discover more: www.cscs.ch/science/comp...
July 9, 2025 at 8:15 AM
What does sustainability mean in the age of #AI? At #PASC25, 400+ global researchers met in Switzerland to explore how supercomputing can drive environmental and social progress while shrinking its own footprint. Discover more: www.cscs.ch/science/comp...
#CSCS is pleased to announce the workshop "Hands-on Introduction to Deep Learning with PyTorch", which will be held from Wednesday, July 2 to Friday, July 4, 2025, at CSCS in Lugano, Switzerland. Register now: www.cscs.ch/publications...
June 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM
#CSCS is pleased to announce the workshop "Hands-on Introduction to Deep Learning with PyTorch", which will be held from Wednesday, July 2 to Friday, July 4, 2025, at CSCS in Lugano, Switzerland. Register now: www.cscs.ch/publications...
ETH Zürich students gain AI skills using the “Alps” supercomputer: www.cscs.ch/science/comp... #students #AI #supercomputer #wearealps
June 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
ETH Zürich students gain AI skills using the “Alps” supercomputer: www.cscs.ch/science/comp... #students #AI #supercomputer #wearealps
Today at 11:30, our director Thomas Schulthess will present at #ISC25 "Alps” – one year on from the first GH200 rollout" in the session "HPC in Europe". Don't miss it!
June 10, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Today at 11:30, our director Thomas Schulthess will present at #ISC25 "Alps” – one year on from the first GH200 rollout" in the session "HPC in Europe". Don't miss it!
Did you miss our webinar on "Interactive computing on Alps"? Don't worry. You can now find the recording on our website: www.cscs.ch/publications... #webinar #tutorial #wearealps
June 4, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Did you miss our webinar on "Interactive computing on Alps"? Don't worry. You can now find the recording on our website: www.cscs.ch/publications... #webinar #tutorial #wearealps
Dark energy shapes our universe, but remains a mystery. Scientists from the University of Geneva used machine learning and simulations on CSCS’s “Piz Daint” to explore a dynamic, time-changing version of dark energy, boosting detection accuracy and reshaping our cosmic models: bit.ly/4juLo7o
June 2, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Dark energy shapes our universe, but remains a mystery. Scientists from the University of Geneva used machine learning and simulations on CSCS’s “Piz Daint” to explore a dynamic, time-changing version of dark energy, boosting detection accuracy and reshaping our cosmic models: bit.ly/4juLo7o
Yesterday, we had the pleasure of hosting an event organised by the ETH Foundation @ethfoundation.bsky.social on "AI-driven science and innovation." It was a special occasion to hear about the latest developments in AI and create a strong connection between ETH and #Ticino #AI #wearealps #alps
May 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Yesterday, we had the pleasure of hosting an event organised by the ETH Foundation @ethfoundation.bsky.social on "AI-driven science and innovation." It was a special occasion to hear about the latest developments in AI and create a strong connection between ETH and #Ticino #AI #wearealps #alps