Scientific IT and Application Support

SCITAS, which stands for Scientific IT and Application Support, is an EPFL central service aiming at providing scientific computing resources and High Performance Computing (HPC) expertise to the EPFL community.

In particular, we provide professional operation and maintenance of:

• HPC clusters equipped with CPU or CPU/GPU nodes
• optimized scientific software stack
• high bandwidth and low latency network
• petabyte-scale parallel distributed file systems shared between the clusters

as well as professional HPC software development by HPC experts to maximize user-code efficiency.