Alps
A Research Infrastructure for science with extreme-scale data and computing needs
Alps is a general-purpose compute and data Research Infrastructure (RI) open to the broad community of researchers in Switzerland and the rest of the world. Alps will provide a high impact, challenging and innovative RI that will allow Switzerland to advance science and impact society.
Alps enables the creation of versatile clusters (vClusters) that can be tailored to the specific needs of users while maintaining confidentiality. For example, a vCluster will be dedicated to MeteoSwiss’ numerical weather forecasts, another one to the User Lab and another one to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
Alps is geo-distributed over different sites. This allows for example to provide geographically redundant supercomputing services or to access large amounts of data stored in different locations.
Alps is currently housed at the following locations:
- CSCS in Lugano
- EPFL in Lausanne
- Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Villingen for data archiving.
- ECMWF in Bologna for access to meteorological data.
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