# 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.

- **Platforms**

  Projects at CSCS are granted access to clusters, which are managed by platforms.

  HPC Platform (**Daint**, **Eiger**)

  Machine Learning Platform (**Clariden**, **Bristen**)

  Climate and Weather Platform (**Santis**)

  For an overview of the different platforms:

  Platforms overview

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…

- **Alps**

  Learn more about the Alps research infrastructure

  Alps Overview

  Get detailed information about the main components of the infrastructure

  Alps Clusters

  Alps Hardware

  Alps Storage
- **Logging In**

  Once you have an account, you can set up multi factor authentication:

  Setting up MFA

  Then access CSCS services:

  Accessing CSCS Web Portals

  Using SSH

  FirecREST API

- **Accounts and Projects**

  If you are a new user, or working on a project for the first time:

  Accounts and Projects

- Visit [status.cscs.ch](<https://status.cscs.ch/>) for the status of Alps systems, and the latest announcements.

## Tutorials and Guides

Learn by doing with our guides and tutorials.

- **Tutorials**

  Hands on tutorials that show how to implement workflows on Alps.

  Machine Learning
- **Guides**

  Guides with practical advice, hints and tips for key topics.

  Using storage effectively

  Accessing internet and external services

## Tools and Services

- **Services**

  CSCS provides services and software on Alps.

  Services Overview

  Learn about individual services

  Developer Portal

  CI/CD for external projects

  Inference services
- **Software**

  CSCS provides applications, programming environments and tools.

  Find out how to use uenv and containers to access software

  uenv

  Container engine
- **Data management and storage**

  CSCS provides [data management and storage](<https://docs.cscs.ch/storage/index.md>) services

## Get in Touch

If you cannot find the information that you need in the documentation, help is available.

- **Get Help**

  Contact the CSCS Service Desk for help.

  Check our hints for what information to provide for us to help you most effectively:

  Support Guide
- **Chat**

  Discuss Alps with other users and CSCS staff on Slack.

- **Contribute**

  The source for the documentation is hosted on GitHub.