5 papers
Fetch Me If You Can: A Comprehensive Analysis of Fetch Metadata
Pedro Bernardo, Alex Ploner, Marco Squarcina +2
Effective server-side defenses against cross-site attacks depend on understanding the context in which browser requests are generated. However, servers often lack the information n…
An Engineering Journey Training Large Language Models at Scale on Alps: The Apertus Experience
Jonathan Coles, Stefano Schuppli, Lukas Drescher +20
Large Language Models (LLMs) have surged as a transformative technology for science and society, prompting governments worldwide to pursue sovereign AI capabilities that ensure dat…
FirecREST v2: lessons learned from redesigning an API for scalable HPC resource access
Elia Palme, Juan Pablo Dorsch, Ali Khosravi +7
Introducing FirecREST v2, the next generation of our open-source RESTful API for programmatic access to HPC resources. FirecREST v2 delivers a 100x performance improvement over its…
Apertus: Democratizing Open and Compliant LLMs for Global Language Environments
Project Apertus, Alejandro Hernández-Cano, Alexander Hägele +100
We present Apertus, a fully open suite of large language models (LLMs) designed to address two systemic shortcomings in today's open model ecosystem: data compliance and multilingu…
Evolving HPC services to enable ML workloads on HPE Cray EX
Stefano Schuppli, Fawzi Mohamed, Henrique Mendonça +10
The Alps Research Infrastructure leverages GH200 technology at scale, featuring 10,752 GPUs. Accessing Alps provides a significant computational advantage for researchers in Artifi…