# Public tenders Canonical results: https://zephior.com/tenders?countries=CH&categories=high-performance-computing 1 matching notices. Page 1. Filter semantics: OR within a filter, AND across filters and text search. Omitted statuses use active defaults; [] includes all statuses. --- title: "HPC & AI Workload Test bed (Alps Next)" canonical: "https://zephior.com/tenders/aaae5f19-19d1-45c4-9c81-57fbeb089d7d/alps-next-hpc-and-ai-workload-test-bed-rfi" last-updated: 2026-10-14T22:27:38.783228+00:00 --- # HPC & AI Workload Test bed (Alps Next) CSCS is gathering information for the next multi-year evolution of the Alps supercomputing platform. This is an RFI and market-intelligence stage, not a call for tenders; interested technology suppliers are asked to describe how their HPC and AI workload capabilities could support future planning. 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