Accurately predicting semiconductor band gaps is key to understanding their properties. Using CSCS’s #Alps supercomputer, EPFL researchers developed a new DFT functional that improves accuracy while remaining far faster than many-body methods. ⚛️💻 www.cscs.ch/science/chem...
August 10, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Accurately predicting semiconductor band gaps is key to understanding their properties. Using CSCS’s #Alps supercomputer, EPFL researchers developed a new DFT functional that improves accuracy while remaining far faster than many-body methods. ⚛️💻 www.cscs.ch/science/chem...
Even Antarctica is seeing stronger heatwaves due to climate change. Using #CSCS’s #Alps supercomputer, SLF researchers studied one of the continent’s most severe recent heatwaves and its impact on the Antarctic ice sheet. Discover more: www.cscs.ch/science/eart... @slfdavos.bsky.social
May 13, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Even Antarctica is seeing stronger heatwaves due to climate change. Using #CSCS’s #Alps supercomputer, SLF researchers studied one of the continent’s most severe recent heatwaves and its impact on the Antarctic ice sheet. Discover more: www.cscs.ch/science/eart... @slfdavos.bsky.social
What to know about CSCS's outgoing CEO Haruna Jallow-Waziri
CSCS PLC has recently appointed Shehu Yahaya Shantali as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), also complimenting the solid legacy of outgoing CEO Haruna Jallo-Waziri. The Central Securities Clearing System Plc (CSCS) is Nigeria's leading…
CSCS PLC has recently appointed Shehu Yahaya Shantali as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), also complimenting the solid legacy of outgoing CEO Haruna Jallo-Waziri. The Central Securities Clearing System Plc (CSCS) is Nigeria's leading…
What to know about CSCS's outgoing CEO Haruna Jallow-Waziri
CSCS PLC has recently appointed Shehu Yahaya Shantali as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), also complimenting the solid legacy of outgoing CEO Haruna Jallo-Waziri. The Central Securities Clearing System Plc (CSCS) is Nigeria's leading financial market infrastructure providing depository, clearing and settlement services across multiple exchanges in the Nigerian capital market. Shantali's appointment as Chief Executive Officer of CSCS will be effective from January 1, 2026, following receipt of regulatory nod.
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December 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
What to know about CSCS's outgoing CEO Haruna Jallow-Waziri
CSCS PLC has recently appointed Shehu Yahaya Shantali as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), also complimenting the solid legacy of outgoing CEO Haruna Jallo-Waziri. The Central Securities Clearing System Plc (CSCS) is Nigeria's leading…
CSCS PLC has recently appointed Shehu Yahaya Shantali as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), also complimenting the solid legacy of outgoing CEO Haruna Jallo-Waziri. The Central Securities Clearing System Plc (CSCS) is Nigeria's leading…
Our digital twin approach couples seafloor pressure data with full-physics 3D acoustic-gravity wave simulations on leadership-class GPU supercomputers such as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's El Capitan,CSCS’s Alps, and NERSC's Perlmutter enabling probabilistic tsunami forecasts in real time
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Our digital twin approach couples seafloor pressure data with full-physics 3D acoustic-gravity wave simulations on leadership-class GPU supercomputers such as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's El Capitan,CSCS’s Alps, and NERSC's Perlmutter enabling probabilistic tsunami forecasts in real time
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The birth of Jupiter: a first visualization computed on CSCS’s ‘Alps’ machine
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October 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Cool and impactful project led by the MPI-M: coupled simulation of the full Earth system in 1.25km resolution. Unprecedented complexity, fidelity, and performance at 82.5 simulated days per day. Accelerated by DaCe on GH200 - next generation #HPC for #climate science is here!
Global climate simulations achieve 1.25 km resolution—team nominated for Climate Gordon Bell Prize | CSCS
For the first time, scientists have run global coupled climate simulations at a resolution of just 1.25 kilometres. Using CSCS’s “Alps” supercomputer, the team including researchers from ETH Zürich…
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October 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
What started as a beginner's Rust journey turned into a tool powering national HPC infrastructure.
Manuel Sopena shares the story behind Manta, built to unify CSCS’s Alps systems across Cray EX machines.
🧠 Building Manta
#rustlang #rustlab2025
Manuel Sopena shares the story behind Manta, built to unify CSCS’s Alps systems across Cray EX machines.
🧠 Building Manta
#rustlang #rustlab2025
September 30, 2025 at 11:35 AM
What started as a beginner's Rust journey turned into a tool powering national HPC infrastructure.
Manuel Sopena shares the story behind Manta, built to unify CSCS’s Alps systems across Cray EX machines.
🧠 Building Manta
#rustlang #rustlab2025
Manuel Sopena shares the story behind Manta, built to unify CSCS’s Alps systems across Cray EX machines.
🧠 Building Manta
#rustlang #rustlab2025
📣 New open calls for LUMI! Researchers in 🇸🇪 Sweden and 🇨🇭 Switzerland can now apply for resources:
❄️ LUMI Sweden Fall 2025 – deadline 16 Oct 2025, 15:00 CEST 👉 www.naiss.se/allocations/...
❄️ CSCS's National Call for Proposals – deadline 27 Oct 2025, 17:00 CEST 👉 www.cscs.ch/publications...
#hpc #ai
❄️ LUMI Sweden Fall 2025 – deadline 16 Oct 2025, 15:00 CEST 👉 www.naiss.se/allocations/...
❄️ CSCS's National Call for Proposals – deadline 27 Oct 2025, 17:00 CEST 👉 www.cscs.ch/publications...
#hpc #ai
September 29, 2025 at 7:24 AM
📣 New open calls for LUMI! Researchers in 🇸🇪 Sweden and 🇨🇭 Switzerland can now apply for resources:
❄️ LUMI Sweden Fall 2025 – deadline 16 Oct 2025, 15:00 CEST 👉 www.naiss.se/allocations/...
❄️ CSCS's National Call for Proposals – deadline 27 Oct 2025, 17:00 CEST 👉 www.cscs.ch/publications...
#hpc #ai
❄️ LUMI Sweden Fall 2025 – deadline 16 Oct 2025, 15:00 CEST 👉 www.naiss.se/allocations/...
❄️ CSCS's National Call for Proposals – deadline 27 Oct 2025, 17:00 CEST 👉 www.cscs.ch/publications...
#hpc #ai
Training #Apertus—Switzerland’s first open, multilingual LLM—requires massive computing power. The #Alps supercomputer at CSCS enables sovereign AI with GPUs at its core. ETH Zurich’s Ana Klimovic and CSCS’s Joost VandeVondele explain how: youtu.be/GuanQmIzg68?... @ethz.ch @icepfl.bsky.social
Infrastructure and efficient computing are key for an LLM like Apertus
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September 17, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Training #Apertus—Switzerland’s first open, multilingual LLM—requires massive computing power. The #Alps supercomputer at CSCS enables sovereign AI with GPUs at its core. ETH Zurich’s Ana Klimovic and CSCS’s Joost VandeVondele explain how: youtu.be/GuanQmIzg68?... @ethz.ch @icepfl.bsky.social
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...
🇨🇭 #LLM key facts:
🔹 built by ETH Zurich & EPFL (Lausanne)
🔹 trained on CSCS’s Alps supercomputer (100% green)
🔹 fully open‑source
🔹 massively multilingual: 1,000+ languages, code, math
🔹 2 sizes: 8 B and 70 B params
🔹 in line with🇨🇭 & 🇪🇺 privacy/copyright laws
🔹 800+ researchers, 20M+ GPU hrs on Alps
🔹 built by ETH Zurich & EPFL (Lausanne)
🔹 trained on CSCS’s Alps supercomputer (100% green)
🔹 fully open‑source
🔹 massively multilingual: 1,000+ languages, code, math
🔹 2 sizes: 8 B and 70 B params
🔹 in line with🇨🇭 & 🇪🇺 privacy/copyright laws
🔹 800+ researchers, 20M+ GPU hrs on Alps
July 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
🇨🇭 #LLM key facts:
🔹 built by ETH Zurich & EPFL (Lausanne)
🔹 trained on CSCS’s Alps supercomputer (100% green)
🔹 fully open‑source
🔹 massively multilingual: 1,000+ languages, code, math
🔹 2 sizes: 8 B and 70 B params
🔹 in line with🇨🇭 & 🇪🇺 privacy/copyright laws
🔹 800+ researchers, 20M+ GPU hrs on Alps
🔹 built by ETH Zurich & EPFL (Lausanne)
🔹 trained on CSCS’s Alps supercomputer (100% green)
🔹 fully open‑source
🔹 massively multilingual: 1,000+ languages, code, math
🔹 2 sizes: 8 B and 70 B params
🔹 in line with🇨🇭 & 🇪🇺 privacy/copyright laws
🔹 800+ researchers, 20M+ GPU hrs on Alps
EPFL and ETH Zürich are building together a Swiss made LLM from scratch.
Fully open and multilingual, the model is trained on CSCS's supercomputer "Alps" and supports sovereign, transparent, and responsible AI in Switzerland and beyond.
Read more here: ai.epfl.ch/a-language-m...
#ResponsibleAI
Fully open and multilingual, the model is trained on CSCS's supercomputer "Alps" and supports sovereign, transparent, and responsible AI in Switzerland and beyond.
Read more here: ai.epfl.ch/a-language-m...
#ResponsibleAI
A language model built for the public good - EPFL AI Center
ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the new LLM ma...
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July 9, 2025 at 7:26 AM
EPFL and ETH Zürich are building together a Swiss made LLM from scratch.
Fully open and multilingual, the model is trained on CSCS's supercomputer "Alps" and supports sovereign, transparent, and responsible AI in Switzerland and beyond.
Read more here: ai.epfl.ch/a-language-m...
#ResponsibleAI
Fully open and multilingual, the model is trained on CSCS's supercomputer "Alps" and supports sovereign, transparent, and responsible AI in Switzerland and beyond.
Read more here: ai.epfl.ch/a-language-m...
#ResponsibleAI
A milestone for open AI: ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a fully open multilingual language model, trained on CSCS’s “Alps” supercomputer. Built for the public good, this model promotes transparency, inclusion, and innovation.
Read more:
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A language model built for the public good
ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the new LLM ma...
ethz.ch
July 9, 2025 at 6:42 AM
A milestone for open AI: ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a fully open multilingual language model, trained on CSCS’s “Alps” supercomputer. Built for the public good, this model promotes transparency, inclusion, and innovation.
Read more:
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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
Decades of #climate modelling faced a trade-off: global scale vs. high resolution. Using CSCS’s #Alps #supercomputer, a team built a 3.5 km Earth System Model, winning the 2024 Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling. Discover more: www.cscs.ch/science/eart...
January 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Decades of #climate modelling faced a trade-off: global scale vs. high resolution. Using CSCS’s #Alps #supercomputer, a team built a 3.5 km Earth System Model, winning the 2024 Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling. Discover more: www.cscs.ch/science/eart...
'Racially minoritised students’ ratings on each of the CSCS’s four scales were significantly lower, with medium to large effect sizes. They especially noticed how people of colour were represented in negative or stereotyped ways and thought classroom interactions were less inclusive.' 1/3
Black and Asian students experience the curriculum as less culturally sensitive
Outcomes get all the attention, but what about the experience gaps by ethnicity which persist in UK higher education? Kathleen Quinlan and Dave Thomas present their research
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September 25, 2024 at 9:33 AM
'Racially minoritised students’ ratings on each of the CSCS’s four scales were significantly lower, with medium to large effect sizes. They especially noticed how people of colour were represented in negative or stereotyped ways and thought classroom interactions were less inclusive.' 1/3