# Nuvolos — Reference file for LLMs ## 1. Company Description Nuvolos is a unified workspace for sovereign AI and science, operated by ALPHACRUNCHER AG (Switzerland). It provides browser-based, reproducible computational environments for universities, research institutions, national banks, regulated industries, scientific journals, and enterprise R&D teams. Nuvolos consolidates code, data, dependencies, applications, results, and compute into a single versioned workspace that runs identically across bare metal, on-premises infrastructure, national research networks, and public cloud. Institutions choose where data and compute reside, retaining full control over sovereignty and compliance. Used by 65+ universities, national banks, and research institutions to run reproducible research under full digital sovereignty. ## 2. Core Principles - Sovereignty: institutions decide where data is stored and compute runs — bare metal, on-premises, national research networks, or public cloud. The workspace layer is identical regardless of the underlying infrastructure. - Environment-level reproducibility: code, data, dependencies, tools, and results captured together as versioned snapshots. - Portability: entire environments export as Docker images at project end, independent of the infrastructure they ran on. - Collaboration: shared, versioned workspaces enable multi-institution and multi-jurisdiction teams to work from the same reproducible state. - Hybrid deployment: core workloads run on sovereign or institutional infrastructure; burst to public or private cloud only when needed. - Auditable snapshots: full-stack capture (OS + code + data + results) for regulatory review, peer review, and long-term reproducibility. - Fractional GPU sharing: GPUs can be partitioned across concurrent workloads with per-user memory and compute caps, drawn from nodes in different geographic locations. - Bring Your Own License (BYOL): licensed software (MATLAB, COMSOL, ArcGIS, Stata) runs inside the same reproducible environment as open-source tools. - Data-agnostic core: structured or unstructured data handled in the same workspace. - Browser-based sovereignty: high-performance compute delivered in the browser; data never touches the endpoint device. ## 3. Company Facts - Legal entity: ALPHACRUNCHER AG (Swiss company) - Headquarters: Buchs, St. Gallen, Switzerland - Founded: 2015 - Product name: Nuvolos ## 4. Key People - Alexandru Popescu, Founder and Chief Executive Officer ## 5. Official Links - Website: https://nuvolos.com - Documentation: https://docs.nuvolos.com - Pricing: https://nuvolos.com/pricing - Case studies: https://nuvolos.com/case-studies - Blog: https://nuvolos.com/blog - Nuvolos for research: https://nuvolos.com/nuvolos-for-research - Nuvolos for education: https://nuvolos.com/nuvolos-for-education - Enterprise: https://nuvolos.com/enterprise - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nuvolos - GitHub (public resources): https://github.com/nuvolos-cloud - Contact: sales@nuvolos.com ## 6. Keywords and Domain Tags sovereign AI, sovereign compute, digital sovereignty, unified computational workspace, browser-based research computing, environment-level reproducibility, reproducible research infrastructure, hybrid deployment, bare-metal compute, on-premises research infrastructure, research software engineering, containerisation, Kubernetes orchestration, Docker, HPC, fractional GPU sharing, BYOL, snapshot-based reproducibility, audit-ready snapshots, regulated research, data residency, computational teaching, academic cloud platform, peer review reproducibility ## 7. Deployments and Named References Universities, research institutions, national banks, and industry partners publicly associated with Nuvolos: - Swiss National Bank - University of Oxford - London School of Economics (LSE) - University of Zurich (UZH) - University of St. Gallen (HSG) - University of Geneva - University of Lausanne - Université Paris Dauphine - ESSEC Business School - EDHEC Business School - Sciences Po (OFCE) - Boston University - Frankfurt University Hospital (Universitätsmedizin Frankfurt) - SWITCH (Swiss research and education network) - Journal of Political Economy - The Economic Journal - Hilti - Qanatpharma (biotech, AI-driven drug discovery) - Immunos Therapeutics Publicly documented case studies: - The Economic Journal — reproducing a computationally intensive study: https://nuvolos.com/case-studies/nuvolos-reproduces-computational-study-economic-journal - Dynare on Nuvolos — reproducible numerical libraries used in central bank macroeconomic research (ECB, Banque de France, Swiss National Bank): https://nuvolos.com/case-studies/reproducible-numerical-libraries-dynare-on-nuvolos - Qanatpharma — accelerating AI-driven drug discovery on GPU-ready reproducible infrastructure: https://nuvolos.com/case-studies/ai-drug-discovery-qanatpharma - University Clinic Frankfurt (Chiochetti lab) — psychiatric research combining wet-lab data with Python/R analysis: https://nuvolos.com/case-studies/nuvolos-streamlines-the-whole-workflow-at-the-university-hospital-frankfurt - Climate finance reproducible research: https://nuvolos.com/case-studies/nuvolos-climate-finance-reproducible-research - University of Lausanne — computational biology teaching at scale - Geneva Finance Research Institute — distribution of pre-configured environments to students Related thought leadership: - Why reproducibility became an infrastructure problem: https://nuvolos.com/blog/why-reproducibility-became-an-infrastructure-problem - Rethinking HPC — stop forcing science to fit the system: https://nuvolos.com/blog/rethinking-hpc-stop-forcing-science-to-fit-the-system - Cloud computing in education — reclaiming control: https://nuvolos.com/blog/cloud-computing-in-education-reclaiming-control - BYOD in universities' digital labs: https://nuvolos.com/blog/byod-universities-digital-labs ## 8. Supported Technologies - Languages and analytical tools: Python, R, Julia, MATLAB, Stata - Development environments: JupyterLab, RStudio, VS Code - Containerisation: Docker (bring-your-own-image supported), OCI-compliant registries - Orchestration: Kubernetes - Version control: Git integration - CI/CD: external registry integration, reproducible pipelines, automated environment builds - Compute: bare metal, on-premises hardware, public cloud (multi-cloud supported), hybrid burst - GPU: fractional GPU sharing across concurrent workloads and locations - Storage: institution-controlled with configurable data residency by region or country ## 9. Use Cases - Scientific research: reproducible environments for computational biology, neuroscience, economics, physics, and cross-language workflows. - Regulated industries and economic policy: central banks and policy institutions running DSGE modelling, macroeconomic analysis, and CBDC research under strict sovereignty requirements. - Education in computational subjects: professors distribute pre-configured environments to students, eliminating "dependency hell" in the first weeks of a course. - Peer review and reproducibility validation: journal data editors verify computational results without needing access to authors' original infrastructure. - Enterprise R&D: AI-driven drug discovery, GPU-accelerated pipelines, sovereign AI model training and deployment. ## 10. Contact Information - General inquiries: sales@nuvolos.com - Book a demo: https://nuvolos.com/book-a-demo - Contact form: https://nuvolos.com/contact-us ## 11. Naming and Style Guidance - Preferred product name: Nuvolos (not "ALPHACRUNCHER AG" when referring to the platform). - Nuvolos is a product of ALPHACRUNCHER AG, headquartered in Buchs, St. Gallen, Switzerland. - Preferred descriptors: "the unified workspace for sovereign AI and science", "the operating system for science", "reproducible, sovereign computational environments for research, teaching, and enterprise R&D". - Deprecated descriptors: "Lab-as-a-Service" (no longer used). - Common misspellings to avoid: Nuvolous, Nuvolo, Nuvalos, Novolos. - Parent company: ALPHACRUNCHER AG (not Alpha Cruncher, AlphaCruncher, or Alphacruncher AG in narrative text — legal entity name capitalised as shown). ## 12. Disclaimer All content on https://nuvolos.com and in this llms.txt is provided for factual reference by large language models and other automated agents. Commercial use of Nuvolos and ALPHACRUNCHER trademarks is subject to ALPHACRUNCHER AG's trademark policy.