🎄✨ Season’s Greetings from CSCS ✨🎄#CSCS would like to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! May 2026 be a peaceful, joyful, and successful year for you all: www.cscs.ch/publications...

Missed our webinar on the HPC Containers on Alps? The recording is now online! Catch up on building HPC container images, running workloads with Slurm, and best-practice tips.▶️ Watch the video! youtu.be/XQZJv1eDG1Q?... #HPC #containers #webinar

Thanks to @cscsch.bsky.social for hosting a fantastic hackathon in Lugano!👏 Great to see Porting & Optimization Program teams making strong progress: Runko, HILA, MadGraph4GPU, PEPPER, CMSSW, IPPL, DFTK Julia & ML Apertus. ⚡Excellent teamwork & strong momentum as we prepare applications for LUMI.

CSCS@SC2525 — PASC26 Co-Chair Elaine M. Raybourn (Sandia) discusses with Maria-Grazia Giuffreda how ethical awareness is becoming central in #HPC. Join us in Bern next June to exchange ideas on Building Trust in Science through HPC Co-Design: youtu.be/Zqn77NKVKtI?...

Amazing few days at the LUMI Hackathon in Lugano! 🚀💻Huge creativity, collaboration, and high-performance energy at CSCS. Thanks to everyone who joined and made it a success. Until next time🔥 Follow us on Instagram to see more pics: www.instagram.com/cscs.ch/ @lumi-supercomputer.eu

👉 Students, have a look at the available internship positions and apply! It could be the first step toward an inspiring career in computational science: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP... #internship #students #hpc

CSCS@SC25 - Alex Upton (#CSCS) on his experience at the SC25 conference in St. Louis, in a short interview with Maria-Grazia Giuffreda (CSCS): youtu.be/TSRQc9kDqWU?...

👀 Unlock faster, deeper insight into your simulations by registering for our course on cutting-edge in-situ visualization with Ascent, ParaView Catalyst, and Conduit! Registration ends on Friday, 5 December: www.cscs.ch/publications...

CSCS@SC25 - Alberto Madonna (#CSCS) on his experience at the SC25 conference in St. Louis, in a short interview with Maria-Grazia Giuffreda (CSCS): youtu.be/-otfdenD1Y4

🔥The buzz is real! A team of 26 scientists from ETH Zürich, #CSCS and international partners has won the 2025 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling for running global simulations at 1.25 km resolution on the CSCS #Alps supercomputer: www.cscs.ch/publications... #hpc #gordonbell

CSCS@SC - Juan Pablo Dorsch (#CSCS) on his experience at the SC25 conference in St. Louis, in a short interview with Maria-Grazia Giuffreda (CSCS): youtu.be/400zPJ7OVaE

Last day at #SC25, do not miss director of #CSCS, Thomas Schulthess, in the panel "Trust, but Verify in HPC: Uncertainty for AI and Computing" today at 10:30 am: sc25.conference-program.com/presentation... #AI #HPC

#SC25 is now open! Join us at booth #498 🇨🇭

#SC25 kicked off Sunday with our colleague John Biddiscombe presenting at ExaMPI25. He showcased our paper on integrating lightweight tasks with MPI using the upcoming C++26 std::execution Senders API — a true team effort by many at CSCS. Well done!

#CSCS is contributing in a big way at #SC25 in St. Louis! Our colleague Alberto Madonna is co-chairing the 7th CANOPIE-HPC Workshop and will also take part in sessions on “Containers and New Orchestration Paradigms for HPC” and “Evolving Sarus to Augment Podman for HPC.”

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

🚀 #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...

🗓️ 📢 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?...

#CSCS is pleased to announce that the "GPU Acceleration of HPC Applications with ISO C++ and CUDA C++" course will be held from November 4 to 5, 2025, at CSCS in Lugano, Switzerland. Register now! www.cscs.ch/publications... #course #cuda #gpu #hpc

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...

#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

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

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

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

#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

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...

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

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...

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

#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...

At ETH Zurich, we give our students the opportunity to be at the forefront of everything AI. @cscsch.bsky.social Read about the project here: www.cscs.ch/science/comp...

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

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

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

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@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 - 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

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!

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

Welcome to Hamburg! #ISC25 opening session is in progress with program chair @thoefler.bsky.social #HPC #AI

📢 We’re live! Our Digital Annual Report is now online. 🎉 Discover the past year's highlights, key achievements, and milestones in an interactive and accessible format. 👉 Explore the report here: report2024.cscs.ch #report #wearealps #digitalannualreport #cscs

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

BBC Tech Now visited #CSCS to learn more about the latest high-performance computing generation and how the technology works. Check it out: youtu.be/jGVRAK8KIBg?...