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CSCS Drives Next-Gen HPC Interoperability in the ODISSEE Project

The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) is one of 14 partners in the EU-funded ODISSEE project, which has just started and will last until the end of 2026. The initiative is designed to address the extreme-scale data challenges posed by CERN’s HL-LHC and the SKAO.

March 21, 2025 - by Maria Grazia Giuffreda

ODISSEE aims to revolutionize real-time, AI-driven data processing for high-energy physics and astrophysics research. CSCS’s contributions will enhance the flexibility, accessibility, and efficiency of European HPC infrastructures, facilitating groundbreaking discoveries, including advancements in the search for dark matter.  

CSCS plans to improve the interoperability and programmability of HPC workflows by integrating multiple identity providers and job schedulers into the existing European REST API (FirecREST). This effort, conducted in collaboration with SURF in the Netherlands and BSC in Spain, will create a unified and adaptable environment for managing vast amounts of scientific data.  

By focusing on interoperability and programmability, CSCS is playing a pivotal role in ensuring seamless, efficient, and scalable computing solutions for the scientific community. Through this initiative, CSCS and its partners are not only strengthening ODISSEE’s computational framework but also advancing Europe’s digital leadership in scientific computing.  

Coordinated by Observatoire de Paris, the three-year ODISSEE consortium brings together 14 partners and 2 associate partners from academia and industry. By involving such a diverse pool of partners, the project will be able to design technological solutions for the benefit of research that can be directly applied in the industrial world, thereby helping to boost European industry competitiveness and European digital sovereignty. (Image: ODISSEE)