Platforms on Alps¶
A platform represents a set of scientific services along with compute and data resources hosted on the Alps research infrastructure, provided to a specific scientific community. Each platform addresses particular research needs and domains, such as climate and weather modeling, machine learning, or high-performance computing applications. A platform can consist of one or multiple clusters, and its services can be managed either by CSCS or by the scientific community itself, including access control, usage policies, and support.
The following platforms are fully operated by CSCS:
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HPC Platform
The HPC Platform (HPCP) provides services for the HPC community in Switzerland and abroad. The majority of compute cycles are provided to the User Lab via peer-reviewed allocation schemes.
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Machine Learning Platform
The Machine Learning Platform (MLP) hosts ML and AI researchers, particularly the SwissAI initiative.
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Climate and Weather Platform
The Climate and Weather Platform (CWP) provides resources to the climate modeling community.
The following platforms are jointly operated by different Swiss projects and institutes and CSCS. Software and policies are tailored depending on the use case, and are documented separately.
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Merlin 7
The Merlin resources are available to all PSI staff and external collaborators.
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Materials Cloud
Materials Cloud is built to enable the seamless sharing and dissemination of resources in computational materials science.
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Numerical weather forecasting
MeteoSwiss uses a numerical weather forecasting model for the production of regional and local forecast products in the Alpine region.
Under-construction
Add the WLCG, CTA and SKA platforms in here as well, with their respective external links.