If you wish to submit a production project you need to provide the following documents (in PDF format):

• Your production project proposal, including all the mandatory items listed below
• Your curriculum vitae
• Your list of publications 

The  portal for the proposal submission is : projectoffice.cscs.ch

The next deadline for submission of production proposals is Monday May 18, 2026 at 17 CEST, for the allocation starting on October 1, 2026!

***Please note that the submission portal closes at 17:00 CEST. After this time, it will no longer be possible to submit a proposal.***

Proposers must hold at least the position of postdoctoral position at an academic institution. Only professors can apply for multi-year projects.

PhD students cannot apply independently and must submit proposals in consultation with, and under the auspices of, their supervisor. In such cases the supervisor must be identified as the Principal Investigator (PI) of the project.

International applications (and collaborations) will be accepted only if proposers and their teams are affiliated with academic institutions and use of GPUs is clearly proved and supported by all appropriate technical data. 

The same proposer cannot submit more than 2 proposals per Call.

Double-awarding is not permitted. Applicants must submit original proposals that have not been submitted and/or funded in any other HPC/AI programs.

Proposers whose project proposals are approved must hold an academic position for the full duration of the project. CSCS reserves the right to close the project otherwise.

Principal investigators must apply for resources on the HPC & ML vClusters on Alps. Production project proposals, which need 250'000 node hours or more must be submitted under the CHRONOS Tier-0 call.

All applicants must request a preparatory access to Alps. Please visit our webpage on preparatory projects here>>.

Please note that proposals using purely multicore codes (in other words, codes that cannot run on GPUs) will be granted preparatory access to Eiger@Alps (AMD EPYC 7742 CPU Rome, 2x64 cores, 256/512 GB DDR RAM). Such MC proposals can be granted less than 250'000 node hours, primarly on LUMI-C.

Swiss applicants can also request resources on the LUMI-C system in Kajaani, Finland. To do so, please submit the preparatory project to projectoffice@cscs.ch, explicitly mentioning the targeted system if you are interested in getting benchmark access on LUMI-C in preparation of a production proposal. LUMI-C has 2 x 64 cores AMD EPYC 7662 2.45 GHz. Please apply only if your codes that do not run on GPUs.

The ML Platform is available only for proposals that are not covered by the Swiss AI Inititative.

***Please note that multicore availability at CSCS is still relatively limited compared to accelerated resources. Applicants are therefore strongly encouraged to migrate to GPU-accelerated codes.***

The project proposal must conform to these requirements:

• Length: no longer than10 A4 pages including graphs and references
• Font:  Arial or Times New Roman and font size 11 using single line spacing
• Margins: at least 2.54 cm in all directions. These requirements apply to all sections of the proposal

And it must contain the following information:

• Abstract
• Background and significance
• Scientific goals and objectives
• Description of the research methods, algorithms, and code parallelization approach (including memory requirements)
• Technical  Report (a tamplate will be provided in time):
  • Representative benchmarks
  • Resource justification (annual node hours and disk space)
• Project plans: tasks and milestones
• Visualization, pre- and post-processing needs
• Previous results are mandatory (if applicable)! Please list allocations requested, granted and used in your previous project (if applicable).
• Research publications that resulted from previous allocations acknowledging use of CSCS resources are recommended
• Reference list is required and must not be references of your own work but a list of relevant references from the literature
• Development and debugging requirements (not mandatory)

The project proposal should strictly follow the template and guidelines provided here:

• Production Project Template »

Please note that

• "Batch job summary report" is not available on EIger@Alps
• "jobreport" is availabe on Daint@Alps

Multi-year Submissions:

• Multi-year project proposals must include a research plan that justifies the multi-year request and three clearly defined milestones for each year requested. These milestones will be reviewed at time of each renewal.
• Only professors may submit multi-year proposals, for a maximum duration of up to three years.
• Please note that for renewals, applicants may request no more than 20% additional resources compared to the original granted resources.

Please note that the absence of any of the mandatory component may result in the rejection of the proposal.

The requested allocation must be specified per year, that is, you must provide the total number of node hours required for one year of your project.

The documents that need to be submitted are:

• Project Proposal (pdf format)
• Curriculum Vitae (pdf format)
• Publication List (pdf format)

VERY IMPORTANT:  All applicants must apply for a Preparatory Project, unless they already have access to Alps. Preparatory access allows you to port your code, test it, and collect all the information necessary for a Production Project Proposal. All data has to be provided on Alps.

Please do not submit a single proposal for multiple projects. It is mandatory to submit one proposal per project, even if those projects are related through the same code or suites of codes. The same Principal Investigator (PI) may not submit more than two proposals per call.

Please be aware that proposals rejected in previous calls may not be resubmitted!

 Large production proposals (> 10'000 and < 250'000 node hours)

The review process is structured as follows:

• Complete proposals will be subjected to a technical feasibility assessment
• Complete proposals will be subjected to scientific review, carried out by reviewers from an international pool
• Based on the technical and scientific reviews, a panel committee of scientific experts will rate the projects and make a final allocation recommendation

Applicants do not receive intermediate feedbacks. Communication will only happen within 2-3 weeks from the SAC meeting.

There are two allocation periods for Production Projects and Large Development Projects on CSCS HPC systems starting on: April 1st and October 1st.

Deadlines »

Please click here » for information on the renewal report.

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