2025 Swiss Conference: Alps Research Infrastructure: Enabling World-Class ML Research in Switzerland

Mohamed Fawzi Roberto Senior Manager, CSCS Clariden.alps is a quad socket Grace-Hopper vCluster that is especially suited to ML Research, and is used mainly by the SwissAI Initiative. We will discuss the work performed, challenges encountered to set it up, both at the hardware level and the software level, the services we provide and future directions.