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- Free allowance
- Small project grants of 'typically ... between 20k and 32k compute hours' for 'a period of six months' on the CSCS Alps infrastructure (over 10,000 GH200 GPUs), plus a large-project call for 'projects requesting more than 500k GPU hours'.
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institutionno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedSwiss research-institution employment at 50% FTE for the project's whole duration plus a co-signing Swiss PI is a condition no outsider can meet, and the application is a signed 2-page PDF.
- Evidence
- documented3 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | Small project grants of 'typically ... between 20k and 32k compute hours' for 'a period of six months' on the CSCS Alps infrastructure (over 10,000 GH200 GPUs), plus a large-project call for 'projects requesting more than 500k GPU hours'. The initiative aims to distribute '10-20M GPU hours' across 2026. Eligibility, quoted: 'Every individual or team is eligible to apply as long as at least one team member is employed at a recognized research institution in Switzerland, at a minimum 50% FTE research function as permanent or Professor tenure-track for the whole duration of the project.' The proposal must carry 'signature of at least 1 supporting Swiss PI'. unit hours; metered on wall-clock; one-time-credit |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) Swiss research-institution employment at 50% FTE for the project's whole duration plus a co-signing Swiss PI is a condition no outsider can meet, and the application is a signed 2-page PDF. source
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| Identity | institution not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | None. The allocation is node-hours on a named national supercomputer, reachable only through the project, so it cannot be combined with a commercial allowance. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | The national-HPC class in one record, and the cleanest illustration of why this class is closed: the quota is real and enormous (10-20M GPU hours across 2026, on GH200), and the eligibility sentence is a Swiss employment contract. The Swiss AI Initiative is co-founded by ETH Zurich and EPFL and runs on CSCS Alps. A reader who sees '10-20 million GPU hours' without the eligibility line will plan a year of training; the two belong in one sentence. On promotion, pair it with the same document's line that private companies, NGOs, SMEs and startups 'can not request nor directly access any computing resource', which closes the industry-partner route too. |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | www.swiss-ai.org/compute-grants | 'For 2026, the 10-20 million GPU hours should be distributed'; 'The large compute call - targeted at projects requesting more than 500k GPU hours - is held twice a year'; 'Call for Small Projects (up to 32k GPU hours), rolling reviews', quoted; page… |
| 2026-10-22 | docs.google.com/document/d/1o8x3Ow-3kYx0FZXQrXsFwT-rwDqR747w | the small-grant call document: 'Every individual or team is eligible to apply as long as at least one team member is employed at a recognized research institution in Switzerland, at a minimum 50% FTE research function as permanent or Professor tenure-track for the whole duration of the project', 'signature of at least 1 supporting Swiss PI', 'Typically, the compute amount requested might be between 20k and 32k compute hours', quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | docs.google.com/document/d/1o8x3Ow-3kYx0FZXQrXsFwT-rwDqR747w | the call also requires 'Provide evidence of experience with GPU multi-GPU/node training', so the gate is an employment contract plus a demonstrated track record, not a proposal alone |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "research-credit","free_tier_kind": "one-time-credit","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": "GH200","gpu_count": null}} |
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Unknown values 7
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field