Companies/CSCS
Lugano, Switzerland
CSCS
Operator of the Alps and, previously, Piz Daint systems on behalf of ETH Zurich.
Systems this company appears in
No system edges recorded yet for this company.
Sites operated
| Site | Location | Cooling | Commissioned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CSCS, Lugano | Lugano, Switzerland | Lake-water cooling (Lake Lugano) | 2012 |
Related news
- ETH Zurich and EPFL release Apertus, a fully open LLM trained on Alps · ETH ZurichApertus used more than 10 million GPU hours on Alps to train 8B and 70B parameter models with open weights, data and training code, a rare case in this dataset of a system's compute being fully accounted for by one named downstream model rather than a mix of undisclosed workloads.
- Piz Daint powered off after 13 years, cleared for Alps · CSCSCSCS retired the Cray XC50/XC40 system that had anchored Swiss GPU computing since 2012, closing out the last pre Grace Hopper system in this dataset's Swiss lineage and completing the multi year handover to Alps that began with Alps' 2024 inauguration.