Services

Text Lab on OnDemand (under development)

Text Lab on OnDemand is an interactive application that provides a range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, which can be run through the OnDemand platform on UBELIX. All models run on University hardware and data processing stays within the University network.
Current features include:

Transcribe audio files using Whisper
Chat with a basic AI chatbot
Perform OCR with olmOCR
AI data visualiser within MCP system

More NLP features and enhancements are on the way. To access it, go to https://ondemand.hpc.unibe.ch and start a session by going to Data Science Lab Services and selecting Text Lab.

Whisper

DSL provides a container and script to use OpenAI's Whisper speech recognition model on the Ubelix HPC Cluster. Documentation below:

Documentation (PDF, 1.1 MB)

Grid Certificates

DSL operates Swiss National Authority for eScience Grid Certificates as a service.

At present, we can only provide IGTF-compliant grid host certificates without public browser trust to Swiss academic and research organizations.
Public-trust certificates or user grid certificates are not available, but contact us with your use case if you need them.

We work with eMudhra as the CA for the certificates.

Host certificates are issued for a single FQDN for a duration of 1 year.
In 2025, the price per certificate is set to 200 CHF, billed on a half-year basis.

Reach out to alexander.kashev@unibe.ch for instructions on requesting a host certificate.
Be prepared to be able to manipulate DNS TXT records to provide domain control validation.