Computer Science, AI & HPC

For the first time, researchers at ETH Zürich have simulated a silicon nanoribbon transistor comprising 42,000 atoms and…

For the first time, scientists have run global coupled climate simulations at a resolution of just 1.25 kilometres.…

Large AI models and the data centres that power them consume a lot of energy, as several media articles pointed out…

EPFL, ETH Zurich and CSCS released Apertus today, Switzerland’s first large-scale, open, multilingual language model — a…

For the first time, PSI’s advanced research facilities and particle accelerators will rely on a remote computing setup…

At PASC25, Elisa Molinari highlighted how working on community materials science codes can lead to big gains—in both…

ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the "Alps"…

What does sustainability mean in the age of AI and growing data centres? At the PASC25 Conference in Switzerland, over…

A recent course offering at ETH Zürich entitled “Large-Scale AI Engineering” helps students hone necessary skills for…

Autonomous Mobility already exists… to some extent. Building an autonomous vehicle that can safely navigate an empty…

Torsten Hoefler, Professor at ETH Zürich and Chief Architect for AI and Machine Learning at CSCS, wins the ACM Prize in…

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

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

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

This year's PASC program explored both the benefits of and sometimes the challenges in high-performance computing (HPC),…