CSCS Documentation¶
The Alps Research Infrastructure hosts multiple platforms and clusters targeting different communities. A good spot to get started is with the documentation for the platform that your project is running on.
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Platforms
Projects at CSCS are granted access to clusters, which are managed by platforms.
Machine Learning Platform (Clariden, Bristen)
Climate and Weather Platform (Santis)
For an overview of the different platforms:
Alps is a general-purpose compute and data Research Infrastructure (RI) open to the broad community of researchers in Switzerland and the rest of the world. Find out more about Alps…
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Alps
Learn more about the Alps research infrastructure
Get detailed information about the main components of the infrastructure
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Logging In
Once you have an account, you can set up multi factor authentication:
Then access CSCS services:
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Accounts and Projects
If you are a new user, or working on a project for the first time:
Visit status.cscs.ch for the status of Alps systems, and the latest announcements.
Tutorials and Guides¶
Learn by doing with our guides and tutorials.
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Tutorials
Hands on tutorials that show how to implement workflows on Alps.
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Guides
Guides with practical advice, hints and tips for key topics.
Tools and Services¶
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Services
CSCS provides services and software on Alps.
Learn about individual services
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Software
CSCS provides applications, programming environments and tools.
Find out how to use uenv and containers to access software
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Data management and storage
CSCS provides data management and storage services
Get in Touch¶
If you cannot find the information that you need in the documentation, help is available.
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Get Help
Contact the CSCS Service Desk for help.
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Chat
Discuss Alps with other users and CSCS staff on Slack.
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Contribute
The source for the documentation is hosted on GitHub.