Alps Supercomputer Switzerland: A Supercomputer Revolutionizing AI and Scientific Research
Geneva, Switzerland: Switzerland began operating the new supercomputer named as Alps on Saturday, which the nation considers as one of the fastest supercomputers to put the country as number one of most reliable AI systems.
The ETH Zurich University celebrates Alps officially at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano of south part of Switzerland.
Czech news source “Alps is a reflection of the future where knowledge and progress will prevail,” Economy, Education and Research Minister, Guy Parmelin said this in a speech at the CSCS site.
Alps was found to be ranked as the sixth most powerful supercomputer in the whole world in June. However, at the time of writing this article it was still under construction and had only been developed up to 60 per cent.
The supercomputer is designed to cater for the research-based mathematical computations data and scientific needs for extreme data and computing and enables artificial intelligence to be used to its full potential.
It is the key component of the ‘Swiss AI Strategy’ aimed at making Switzerland the global centre for creating and applying AI solutions that are reliable and perceptible to the public, the ETH Zurich has said in its press release.
Andreas Krause, head of the AI Centre at ETH Zurich, said: “Even with the critical applications such as the medical ones and climatic ones, Alps offers a way to train the complex AI models for those applications.
Currently, MeteoSwiss, the Swiss national weather service, is employing the Alps to create enhanced density models of weather prediction adjusted to Switzerland’s georelief of mountains and valleys.
Specifically, Parmelin said on X that the Alps will be “opening up new horizons, preparing the way for the future, positions Switzerland for research”.
CSCS deputy director Michele De Lorenzi who spoke to the Swiss Keystone-ATS news agency said it would take forty thousand years for a commercial laptop to accomplish such calculations as the Alps does in one day.