4 papers
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…