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 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.

• Hardware

  Learn about the node types and networking infrastructure in Alps.

  Alps Hardware

• Network

  Learn about the Slingshot 11 network on Alps.

  Alps Network

• Storage

  Learn about the file systems attached to Alps.

  Alps Storage

• vClusters

  The resources on Alps are partitioned and configured into versatile software defined clusters (vClusters).

  Alps vClusters

• Tenants

  Alps is a multi-tenant system.

  Alps Tenants