CSCS

🎄✨ Season’s Greetings from 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.
📅 Holiday Closure > CSCS will be closed from December 24, 2025, and will reopen on January 7, 2026. As usual, access to systems and services will not be affected.
👀 We look forward to seeing you again at our events in the coming year—to discuss new technological challenges and scientific needs, and to learn about the exciting scientific results made possible by CSCS infrastructure.
Thank you for being part of our community. We look forward to seeing you in 2026! 🎉

EPFL, ETH Zurich and CSCS released Apertus today, Switzerland’s first large-scale, multilingual language model (LLM). As a fully open LLM, Apertus allows researchers, professionals and experienced enthusiasts to build upon the model and adapt it to their specific needs, as well as to inspect any part of the training process: https://www.cscs.ch/science/computer-science-hpc/2025/apertus-a-fully-open-transparent-multilingual-language-model

Lanciata l'alternativa svizzera a ChatGPT Si chiama Apertus ed è un nuovo modello di intelligenza artificiale ideato da ricercatori svizzeri, che è stato addestrato dal supercomputer Alps a Lugano. L'obiettivo è di essere trasparenti.