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CSCS - Swiss National Supercomputing Centre @cscsch.bsky.social · 19h

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 - Swiss National Supercomputing Centre @cscsch.bsky.social · 5d

#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

CSCS - Swiss National Supercomputing Centre @cscsch.bsky.social · 6d

Meet #CSCS today at the AI+X Summit Zurich! #AI #Apertus #wearealps #alps #HPC

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CSCS - Swiss National Supercomputing Centre @cscsch.bsky.social · 9d

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

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CSCS - Swiss National Supercomputing Centre @cscsch.bsky.social · 21d

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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CSCS - Swiss National Supercomputing Centre @cscsch.bsky.social · 23d

#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...

CSCS - Swiss National Supercomputing Centre @cscsch.bsky.social · Sep 2

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

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CSCS - Swiss National Supercomputing Centre @cscsch.bsky.social · Aug 28

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...

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CSCS - Swiss National Supercomputing Centre @cscsch.bsky.social · Aug 4

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...

CSCS - Swiss National Supercomputing Centre @cscsch.bsky.social · Aug 4

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 - Swiss National Supercomputing Centre @cscsch.bsky.social · Jul 16

#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

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CSCS - Swiss National Supercomputing Centre @cscsch.bsky.social · Jul 9

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...

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CSCS - Swiss National Supercomputing Centre @cscsch.bsky.social · Jul 9

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...

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SPCL@ETH @spcl-eth.bsky.social · Jul 7

Closing the ML Gap: Congrats to Stefano Schuppli for receiving the Best Paper Runner-Up Award at CUG 2025!🚀
A proud moment for CSCS and a big step toward more accessible, efficient ML on HPC. Learn more👇
arxiv.org/abs/2507.01880

#HPC @thoefler.bsky.social @csateth.bsky.social @cscsch.bsky.social

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CSCS - Swiss National Supercomputing Centre @cscsch.bsky.social · Jun 24

#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...

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ETH Zurich @ethz.ch · Jun 20

At ETH Zurich, we give our students the opportunity to be at the forefront of everything AI.

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Read about the project here:
www.cscs.ch/science/comp...

ETH Zürich students gain AI skills using the “Alps” supercomputer | CSCS

A recent course offering at ETH Zürich entitled “Large-Scale AI Engineering” helps students hone necessary skills for developing and optimizing next-generation AI technologies. With access to “Alps,” ...

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CSCS - Swiss National Supercomputing Centre @cscsch.bsky.social · Jun 18

Join the Interdisciplinary School on Machine Learning & AI for Science in Heilbronn and don’t miss Prof. Torsten Hoefler’s public lecture: “Large Language Models – From Chatting to Reasoning" 📅 June 23, 2025 • 🕗 20:00 • 📍 Bildungscampus 6, Heilbronn 🔗 www.ethz.ch/heilbronn/summer-school-2025

Interdisciplinary School on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Science, June 19-24, 2025, Heilbronn (Germany)

The ETH Zurich Campus Heilbronn is excited to announce the inaugural edition of the Interdisciplinary School on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Science. This in-person event will take...

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CSCS - Swiss National Supercomputing Centre @cscsch.bsky.social · Jun 18

CSCS@ISC25 - Torsten Hoefler (ETH Zurich & CSCS), program chair of ISC25, comments on the conference's highlights in a short interview with Maria-Grazia Giuffreda: youtu.be/L6SGHAMfvX8?... #ISC25 #wearealps #CSCS

CSCS@ISC - Interview to Torsten Hoefler

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CSCS - Swiss National Supercomputing Centre @cscsch.bsky.social · Jun 17

ETH Zürich students gain AI skills using the “Alps” supercomputer: www.cscs.ch/science/comp... #students #AI #supercomputer #wearealps

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CSCS - Swiss National Supercomputing Centre @cscsch.bsky.social · Jun 16

CSCS@ISC25 - Impressions and challenges that the team RACKLette of ETH Zurich faced at the European Student Cluster Competition at #ISC25 in Hamburg #HPC #CSCS #RACKlette youtu.be/LT0Qge_8KoQ

CSCS@ISC - Team RACKlette from ETH Zurich participating in the Student Cluster Competition of ISC25

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CSCS - Swiss National Supercomputing Centre @cscsch.bsky.social · Jun 16

CSCS@ISC25 - Pim Witlox (Unit Head Engineer & Senior Architect at CSCS) shares his experience at #ISC25 in a short interview with Maria-Grazia Giuffreda (CSCS): youtu.be/CtcmSuCOnWY #ISC25 #wearealps #CSCS #HPC

CSCS@ISC – Interview with Pim Witlox

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CSCS - Swiss National Supercomputing Centre @cscsch.bsky.social · Jun 12

CSCS@ISC - Katarzyna Pawlikowska (Head of Research Collaborations & Chief of Staff at #CSCS) shares her experience at #ISC25 in a short interview with Maria-Grazia Giuffreda (CSCS): youtu.be/12sHEi44Hls?... #hpc #wearealps

CSCS@ISC – Interview with Katarzyna Pawlikowska (CSCS)

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CSCS - Swiss National Supercomputing Centre @cscsch.bsky.social · Jun 10

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!

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HPC Guru @hpcguru.bsky.social · Jun 10

65th #Top500 is out!

o The Top 3 #Exascale systems remain unchanged:

#1 El Capitan
#2 Frontier
#3 Aurora

o JUPITER Booster (EuroHPC planned #Exascale system currently being commissioned – hence partial system) at FZH in Germany at #4 is the only new system in the #Top10

#HPC #AI #ISC25

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HPC Guru @hpcguru.bsky.social · Jun 10

Welcome to Hamburg!

#ISC25 opening session is in progress with program chair
@thoefler.bsky.social

#HPC #AI

Tobias Weinzierl @tobiasweinzierl.bsky.social · Jun 10

Here we go. Looking forward to a great show #ISC25

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