The Pleiades cluster is a High Performance Computing (HPC) resource dedicated to a wide range of computational science. The cluster is used to obtain leading-edge scientific and engineering results for both research and teaching activities.

The cluster is employed by staff and students of a number of laboratories within each of the five schools of the EPFL. Among the different topics studied using the Pleiades cluster are:
 - Computational fluid dynamics
 - Plasma & fusion physics
 - Atomic scale phenomena
 - Chemical processes in the atmosphere
 - Algorithm development for cryptology
 - Cardiovascular flow

The Pleiades cluster is an integral part of the HPC@EPFL landscape, providing a solution intermediate between institute servers and the central facilities managed and hosted by the Domaine IT.

The organizational structure of Pleiades is designed to maintain a close contact between the technical and operational activities and the user community, thus enabling an optimal design and use of the available computational resources.