CSCS Swiss National Supercomputing Centre

The first marathon for ‘Alps’: A 20-hour run fully exploited the new…

19.09.2024

In a 20-hour “hero run,” researchers at PSI harnessed the full power of the Alps supercomputer. They executed…

How scientists uncovered and corrected a specific bias in climate…

13.08.2024

With weather and climate phenomena becoming more extreme and challenging for our society, accurate climate simulations…

PASC24: ACM Student Research Competition elevates HPC

20.06.2024

This year marked the PASC conference’s ten-year anniversary, and, for the first time, the number of attendees exceeded…

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On a mission to boost science: insights from the ‘Alps’ Scientific Symposium

03.10.2024

CSCS’s new supercomputer, ‘Alps,’ inaugurated on 14 September, is set to advance research and encourage scientists to…

Lorenzo Varese: My internship at CSCS

01.10.2024

CSCS offers internships at various levels and in most organizational units. We sat down with Lorenzo Varese, who joined…

The birth of Jupiter: a first visualization computed on ‘Alps’

30.09.2024

The first-ever visualization computed on CSCS’s new ‘Alps’ supercomputer brings to life a giant collision in our solar…

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MISSION

Founded in 1991, CSCS, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, develops and provides the key supercomputing capabilities required to solve important problems to science and/or society. The centre enables world-class research with a scientific user lab that is available to domestic and international researchers through a transparent, peer-reviewed allocation process.

Careers

Join us, and become part of the CSCS team. We are an equal opportunity employer and provide a very international and inclusive working environment. Thanks to the small size of the operation there is strong team cohesion and employees are often granted opportunities and encouraged to develop into areas beyond their job description.