Public supercomputing · CH
Swiss AI Initiative Large Grants (compute on Alps)
Access for one year to compute on the Clariden vCluster on Alps (GH200 architecture); requests can exceed 500,000 compute hours.
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Closed / historical: Swiss AI fourth large-project call: ended Checked 13 November 2026.
Historical large-project call led by eligible Swiss academic or public-research applicants. EPFL's full-proposal deadline was 14 September 2026 at 17:00 CEST. Look for a separately announced later call.
The page still says open, but its dated submission window has passed. Do not interpret ongoing funded projects as open applications. Official source and next step
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Who can apply?
Main applicants affiliated with a Swiss public academic or research institution who are professors (full, associate or tenure-track) or senior researchers (PhD plus at least two years); co-applicants may be from Swiss or foreign institutions.
How do I take the next step?
Historical fourth-call process: declaration of intent and full proposal through the linked toolkit and platform. That submission window has ended; look for a separately announced later call.
Recorded deadline
Recorded deadline: Fourth-call full proposals closed on 14 September 2026 at 17:00 CEST. No later call is verified here.
Check the official programme before applying. A recorded region is not a decision about your eligibility, and an allocation is not guaranteed.
Evidence and limits
- The EPFL page gives a declaration of intent date of 24 August 2026 and a submission deadline of 14 September 2026, 17:00 CEST, so the 4th call has passed; the page still showed the status as open when read. Source
- The Swiss AI Initiative home page describes the 4th Large Project Call as compute hours on Alps, a system with over 10,000 GH200 GPUs, for open science work on foundation models. Source
Primary. Swiss-affiliated lead applicants only. The compute-grants subpage could not be fetched.
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