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🎄✨ 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! 🎉

Girls shaping the future 🌟During the Nuovo Futuro Day, girls and boys open up to new perspectives, jobs and professional sectors in which their gender is underrepresented. Today, had the pleasure of welcoming a group of girls interested in the hashtag sector. The girls had the chance to discover the work of scientists with practical exercises and a guided tour of the machine room 💻🖥️

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

Addestrata a Lugano l'alternativa svizzera a ChatGPT Lanciato oggi, "Apertus" si propone quale opzione ai sistemi commerciali dominanti, accusati di non essere abbastanza trasparenti.

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.