eth-cscs · bcumming · Feb 12, 2025 · Feb 12, 2025
@@ -1,6 +1,50 @@
-# User Management Portal
+[](){#ump}
+# Account and Resources Management Tool
 
-!!! todo
-    copy over docs from [confluence](https://confluence.cscs.ch/display/KB/Account+and+Resources+Management+Tool)
+The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) offers a web-based tool for users to manage their accounts and projects at [account.cscs.ch](https://account.cscs.ch).
 
-    15 minute job
+With this tool, users can:
+
+- Access their profile, manage institutional details, or reset their password.
+- List the projects they belong to, including closed ones.
+- Check details on each project, quotas, and current utilization.
+- Get an overview of where their files are stored at CSCS (including home directories, scratch, etc.).
+
+For group leaders (or PIs), the tool allows:
+
+- Managing user membership and access control.
+- Inviting users to their projects via email. Existing users can accept immediately, while new users will receive instructions to create an account and join the project.
+- Removing users from their projects.
+- Selecting which users can access a system (and submit jobs) and which ones can only access project data.
+- Defining one or more deputies to perform such tasks.  
+  **Note:** The responsibility of what happens within the project still belongs to the group leader or PI.
+
+A short guideline on how to perform these tasks is provided below.
+
+## Usage
+
+The tool is designed to be intuitive and comprises the following main areas:
+
+- **A) Account selector**: For users with multiple accounts (e.g., service accounts).
+- **B) Profile management**: To view and edit the account's institutional details and change the password.
+- **C) Project membership**: To show the selected project in detail.
+- **D) Storage**: Where users can see where they have stored their files (home, scratch, and project areas).
+- **E) Main view**
+
+![Screenshot](../images/access/ump.png)
+
+### Membership Management (for Group Leaders and Deputies Only)
+
+To invite users to a selected project, group leaders or their deputies need to:
+
+1. Select the project on the left menu.
+2. Click the "Members" tab.
+3. Scroll down to the "Users" (or "Deputies" to manage deputies) section.
+4. Use the "+" (plus) button on the right of the section and enter the given and family names and email address of the invitee.  
+   The invitee will receive instructions on how to join the project. The group leader will get a confirmation on whether the invitee has accepted or rejected the invitation.  
+   If the invitee does not have an account, they will also receive instructions on how to create one, which needs to be verified by CSCS administration staff.
+
+To remove users from a selected project, group leaders or their deputies need to:
+
+1. Repeat steps 1 to 3 above.
+2. Use the icon with the three horizontal lines (see screenshot below) that is on the right of the user and select "Remove user."
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+[](){#alps-hardware}
 # Alps Hardware
 
 Alps is a HPE Cray EX3000 system, a liquid cooled blade-based, high-density system.
@@ -20,7 +21,19 @@ This approach to cooling provides greater efficiency for the rack-level cooling,
 * Maximum of 64 quad-blade compute blades
 * Maximum of 64 Slingshot switch blades
 
-## Alps Blades
+## Alps High Speed Network
+
+!!! todo
+    information about the network.
+
+    * Details about SlingShot 11.
+        * how many NICS per node
+        * raw feeds and speeds
+    * Some OSU benchmark results.
+    * GPU-aware communication
+    * **slingshot is not infiniband - there is no NVSwitch**
+
+## Alps Nodes
 
 Alps was installed in phases, starting with the installation of 1024 AMD Rome dual socket CPU nodes in 2020, through to the main installation of 2,688 Grace-Hopper nodes in 2024.
 
@@ -34,26 +47,31 @@ There are currently four node types in Alps, with another becoming available in
 | AMD MI250x     |   12   |   24  |     24      |  96         |
 | AMD MI300A     |   64   |  128  |    512      | 512         |
 
+[](){#gh200-node}
 ### NVIDIA GH200 GPU Nodes
-[](){#gh200-hardware-description}
 
 Perry Peak
 
+[](){#zen2-node}
 ### AMD Rome CPU Nodes
 
 EX425
 
+[](){#a100-node}
 ### NVIDIA A100 GPU Nodes
 
 Grizzly Peak
 
+[](){#mi200-node}
 ### AMD MI250x GPU Nodes
 
 Bard Peak
 
+[](){#mi300-node}
 ### AMD MI300A GPU Nodes
 
 Parry Peak
 
 !!! info "coming soon"
     H1 2025
+
@@ -1,39 +1,37 @@
 # Alps Infrastructure
 
-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. Alps will provide a high impact, challenging and innovative RI that will allow Switzerland to advance science and impact society.
+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.
+Alps provides a high impact, challenging and innovative RI that will allows Switzerland to advance science and impact society.
 
-Alps enables the creation of versatile clusters (vClusters) that can be tailored to the specific needs of users while maintaining confidentiality. For example, a vCluster will be dedicated to MeteoSwiss’ numerical weather forecasts, another one to the User Lab and another one to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
+Alps enables the creation of versatile clusters (vClusters) that can be tailored to the specific needs of users while maintaining confidentiality.
+For example, a vCluster will be dedicated to MeteoSwiss’ numerical weather forecasts, another one to the User Lab and another one to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
+
+A key feature of Alps is multi-tenancy, where tenants are organizations, typically a research institution, that deploys, operates, or manages its platform on the Alps infrastructure.
+Tenants have privileged access to resource nodes, enabling them to deploy their own services and resource configurations.
+Additionally, network segregation ensures secure and isolated communication, with the option to connect to the tenant's private network.
 
 <div class="grid cards" markdown>
 
--   :fontawesome-solid-signs-post: __Hardware__
+-   :fontawesome-solid-signs-post: __Platforms__
 
-    Learn about the node types and networking infrastructure in Alps.
+    [:octicons-arrow-right-24: Alps Platforms][platforms]
 
-    [:octicons-arrow-right-24: Alps Hardware](hardware.md)
+-   :fontawesome-solid-signs-post: __Clusters__
 
--   :fontawesome-solid-signs-post: __Network__
+    The resources on Alps are partitioned and configured into versatile software defined clusters (vClusters).
 
-    Learn about the Slingshot 11 network on Alps.
+    [:octicons-arrow-right-24: Alps vClusters][clusters]
 
-    [:octicons-arrow-right-24: Alps Network](network.md)
+-   :fontawesome-solid-signs-post: __Hardware__
+
+    Learn about the node types and networking infrastructure in Alps.
+
+    [:octicons-arrow-right-24: Alps Hardware](hardware.md)
 
 -   :fontawesome-solid-signs-post: __Storage__
 
     Learn about the file systems attached to Alps.
 
     [:octicons-arrow-right-24: Alps Storage](storage.md)
 
--   :fontawesome-solid-signs-post: __vClusters__
-
-    The resources on Alps are partitioned and configured into versatile software defined clusters (vClusters).
-
-    [:octicons-arrow-right-24: Alps vClusters](vclusters.md)
-
--   :fontawesome-solid-signs-post: __Tenants__
-
-    Alps is a multi-tenant system.
-
-    [:octicons-arrow-right-24: Alps Tenants](tenants.md)
-
 </div>
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+[](){#platforms}
+# Platforms on Alps
+
+A platform represents a set of scientific services along with compute and data resources hosted on the Alps research infrastructure, provided to a specific scientific community.
+Each platform addresses particular research needs and domains, such as climate and weather modeling, machine learning, or high-performance computing applications.
+A platform can consist of one or multiple [clusters][clusters], and its services can be managed either by CSCS or by the scientific community itself, including access control, usage policies, and support.
+
+<div class="grid cards" markdown>
+
+-   :fontawesome-solid-mountain: __Machine Learning Platform__
+
+    The Machine Learning Platform (MLp) hosts ML and AI researchers.
+
+    [:octicons-arrow-right-24: MLp][mlp]
+
+-   :fontawesome-solid-mountain: __HPC Platform__
+
+    !!! todo
+
+    [:octicons-arrow-right-24: HPCp][hpcp]
+
+-   :fontawesome-solid-mountain: __Climate and Weather Platform__
+
+    !!! todo
+
+    [:octicons-arrow-right-24: CWp][cwp]
+
+</div>
@@ -1,10 +1,34 @@
-# Alps vClusters
+[](){#clusters}
+# Alps Clusters
 
-!!! todo
-    this page answers the question "what is a vCluster"?
+A vCluster (versatile software-defined cluster) is a logical partition of the supercomputing resources where platform services are deployed. It serves as a dedicated environment supporting a specific platform. The composition of resources and services for each vCluster is defined in a configuration file used by an automated pipeline for deployment. Once deployed by CSCS, the vCluster becomes immutable.
 
-    * What is a vCluster?
-    * Examples of vClusters
+## Clusters on Alps
+
+Clusters on Alps are provided as part of different [platforms][platforms].
+
+<div class="grid cards" markdown>
+-   :fontawesome-solid-mountain: __Machine Learning Platform__
+
+    Clariden is the main Grace-Hopper cluster
+
+    [:octicons-arrow-right-24: Clariden][clariden]
+
+    Bristen is a small system with a100 nodes, used for **todo**
+
+    [:octicons-arrow-right-24: Bristen][bristen]
+</div>
+
+<div class="grid cards" markdown>
+-   :fontawesome-solid-mountain: __HPC Platform__ { .col-span-12 }
+
+    !!! todo
+</div>
+
+<div class="grid cards" markdown>
+-   :fontawesome-solid-mountain: __Climate and Weather Platform__
+
+    !!! todo
+</div>
 
-    We don't document individual vClusters here - these are documented under each platform.
 
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Welcome to the techincal documentation for Alps.
 
     Once you have a project at CSCS, start here to find your platform:
 
-    [:octicons-arrow-right-24: Platforms overview](platforms/index.md)
+    [:octicons-arrow-right-24: Platforms overview][platforms]
 
     Go straight to the documentation for the platform that hosts your project:
 

@@ -21,8 +21,17 @@ Once invited to a project, you will receive an email, which you can need to crea
 
 The main cluster provided by the MLp is Clariden, a large Grace-Hopper GPU system on Alps.
 
-!!! todo
-    introduction paragraph and cards that link to Clariden and Bristen
+<div class="grid cards" markdown>
+-   :fontawesome-solid-mountain: [__Clariden__][clariden]
+
+    Clariden is the main [Grace-Hopper][gh200-node] cluster used for **todo**
+</div>
+
+<div class="grid cards" markdown>
+-   :fontawesome-solid-mountain: [__Bristen__][bristen]
+
+    Bristen is a smaller system with [A100 GPU nodes][a100-node] for **todo**
+</div>
 
 ## Guides and Tutorials
 

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ The following sections will provide detailed guidance on how to use SLURM to req
     [using slurm on Grace-Hopper][gh200-slurm]
     ```
 
-Link to the [Grace-Hopper overview][gh200-hardware-description].
+Link to the [Grace-Hopper overview][gh200-node].
 
 An example of using tabs to show srun and sbatch useage to get one GPU per MPI rank:
 

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+[](){bristen}
+# Bristen
+
+!!! todo
+    use the [clariden][clariden] as template.
+
@@ -15,31 +15,27 @@ plugins:
   - autorefs
 nav:
   - Welcome: index.md
-  - 'Alps':
-    - alps/index.md
-    - 'Hardware': alps/hardware.md
-    - 'Network': alps/network.md
-    - 'Storage': alps/storage.md
-    - 'vClusters': alps/vclusters.md
-    - 'Tenants': alps/tenants.md
-  - 'Platforms':
-    - platforms/index.md
-    - 'HPC Platform':
-      - platforms/hpcp/index.md
-    - 'Machine Learning Platform':
-      - platforms/mlp/index.md
-      # we could move all vcluster descriptions to a vcluster/name.md
-      # then link them into the respective platform
-      - 'clariden': vclusters/clariden.md
-    - 'Climate and Weather Platform':
-      - platforms/cwp/index.md
   - 'Access':
     - access/index.md
     - 'MFA':
       - access/mfa/index.md
       - 'using windows': access/mfa/windows.md
     - 'UMP': access/ump.md
     - 'Waldur': access/waldur.md
+  - 'Alps':
+    - alps/index.md
+    - 'Platforms': alps/platforms.md
+    - 'Clusters': alps/vclusters.md
+    - 'Hardware': alps/hardware.md
+    - 'Storage': alps/storage.md
+  - 'Machine Learning Platform':
+    - platforms/mlp/index.md
+    - 'clariden': vclusters/clariden.md
+    - 'bristen': vclusters/bristen.md
+  - 'HPC Platform':
+    - platforms/hpcp/index.md
+  - 'Climate and Weather Platform':
+    - platforms/cwp/index.md
   - 'Tools':
     - tools/index.md
     - 'slurm': tools/slurm.md