Quick Start Guide for AMD Resource Manager

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Quick Start Guide for AMD Resource Manager#

The AMD Resource Manager provides a robust environment for managing AI development teams’ work on AMD compute. Whether teams are working on fine-tuning, inference, or any other aspect of AI development, the platform offers easy-to-use tools to maintain fair compute resource allocation. To work efficiently in the platform, a resource manager should have some experience with AI terminology and a general understanding of AI development infrastructure.

This quick start guide outlines the steps to set up essential AI compute resources for project work. By the end, you will have a connected compute cluster, a project with allocated compute resources, and an invited team member who can access the platform.

Terminology reference#

Word

Explanation

GPU

A graphics processing unit. An essential part of compute clusters.

Node

A single data center computer that can contain multiple GPUs.

Cluster

A set of interconnected computational nodes.

Project

A container for AI development. The project is allocated resources through a quota.

Quota

Quotas define a minimum set of resources that are guaranteed. Quotas ensure that computational resources are appropriately shared between projects. Without quotas, some workloads might use all the resources, leaving other workloads waiting.

SSO

Single sign-on. A user login feature allowing easy traversal between multiple applications.

Prerequisites#

This guide assumes you have access to an installed platform. To assist you with onboarding, the following configurations have already been created during the installation process:

  • Administrative users have already been created for your organization as part of the installation process.

    • Platform Administrator named devuser@domain: This user can manage the entities on the application (Clusters, Projects, Quotas) and onboard more users.

      • The domain of the user corresponds to the domain you provided during installation (and subsequently used for the UI). For example, if you provide domain amd.com, the user will be devuser@amd.com; if you provide domain 129.212.178.302.nip.io, the user will be devuser@129.212.178.302.nip.io

    • Keycloak administrator named silogen-admin: This is the admin for keycloak to manage OIDC integrations and SMTP configuration. Please contact a customer support representative to get the password for this user.

  • An organization entity has been created.

  • A compute cluster has been onboarded and connected to AMD Enterprise AI Suite.

  • A project with a resource quota has been created.

Getting started#

This section outlines the steps to set up essential AI compute resources for project work.

Onboard users#

Note

AMD Resource Manager provides multiple options for onboarding users into the platform. For small-scale trial deployments you can invite users through email or add them manually, but for large scale deployments we recommend using single sign-on (SSO).

Invite users through email#

Follow the instructions in “Inviting users and configuring SMTP in Keycloak” to invite users through email.

Onboard users through single sign-on (SSO)#

Follow the instructions in “Adding an identity provider to enable single sign-on” to onboard users through SSO.

Invite users manually#

In case your organization does not have SSO or SMTP server set up you can add users manually.

Follow the instructions in “Manually managing and activating users in AMD Resource Manager” to add users manually.

Change the default admin user passwords#

It is recommended to change the initial admin users’ passwords that were created as part of the installation process. Both passwords are changed in Keycloak using the Keycloak admin panel, usually at https://kc.\<domain provided during installation\F>/admin/master/console/.

  • Platform administrator password (devuser@domain) - Logon and navigate to the ‘airm’ realm on keycloak, navigate to users page and find the devuser@domain user. You can change the password in the credentials tab.

  • Keycloak administrator password (silogen-demo) - Logon and navigate to the ‘master’ realm on keycloak, navigate to users page and find the silogen-admin user. You can change the password in the credentials tab.

Optional: Create new projects (for advanced users)#

Note

A default project with quota has already been created for your organization as part of the installation process. In case you want to create new projects follow the instructions below.

To learn how to create a new project with guaranteed quota follow the instructions in “Manage projects”