Administering Rescale

concept · Reviewed 2026-09-19 GA

Administering Rescale happens in a separate interface from the one you run jobs in, and the controls are spread across most of this documentation rather than gathered in one section. This page is the map: what an administrator can set, and where each thing is written up.

Looking for which of the two admin portals holds a particular screen? What lives in which portal lists both admin navs side by side, menu by menu.

Getting there, and who can

Hover your email at the bottom of the left sidebar, then choose Admin. You will see the organization portal plus one portal per workspace you administer.

There are two administrator roles:

• Organization admin, with administrative access across the organization and every workspace.
• Workspace admin, with administrative access to one workspace.

Only organization admins can grant either role. See organizations & workspaces for the hierarchy, creating workspaces, and delegating administration.

The admin portals still use the previous interface

The redesigned sidebar covers the user-facing platform. Both admin portals remain on the earlier top-nav layout. This is expected, not a stale page.

Structure and people

To	See
Create workspaces, set membership, delegate administration	Organizations & workspaces
Group members, create projects, and understand how budgets chain to them	Groups & projects
Control how people authenticate: SSO, SCIM provisioning, MFA, password rules, IP access rules	Identity & Access
Deactivate someone and transfer their jobs and files	Offboarding

What members are allowed to do

Two different mechanisms, easy to confuse, and both per workspace.

To	See
Filter which hardware and software appear during job setup, cap concurrent cores, cap downloads	Workspace policies
Set workspace-wide defaults and limits: walltime, retention, storage caps, template restrictions	Workspace settings
Set the few genuinely organization-wide policies	Organization settings
Expose only an approved subset of the software catalog to a group	Browsing the catalog
Cap how much storage and transfer a workspace can use	Storage & transfer limits

Spend and billing

To	See
Fund usage with prepaid deposits, and cap what a team can spend with budgets	Budgets & deposits
Prepay for compute at a discount	Commitment plans
Read billing summaries, export CSVs, find invoices and purchase orders	Billing & reports
See where money and capacity actually went	Usage dashboards
Track metered Edison and agent usage	AI credits

What is running, and what happened

To	See
See and act on every job, workstation and storage device in scope, including other people's	Activity
Catch forgotten workstations and set the auto-terminate policy	Workstation administration
Review who did what, and what left the platform	Audit logs

Activity is the one place in the platform where an administrator sees other members' work. Everywhere else a member sees only their own.

Resources you set up once

To	See
Compare coretypes on their specifications, and benchmark a real workload across them	Hardware Performance
Bring your own commercial or in-house software into the catalog	Software Publisher
Connect object storage that stays where it is, rather than copying data in	Data Connectors
Reach your own licence servers from Rescale, and host licences on the platform	Licensing

Connectors and the licensing integrations are organization-level only. A workspace admin cannot add or change them.

Administering by asking

The Edison for administrators answers questions about spend, usage and activity in natural language, from inside the admin portal, so a question that would otherwise mean visiting several pages can be asked directly. An organization admin can ask across every workspace; a workspace admin gets their own workspace's scope.

Not in the admin portal

Your own API keys, notification preferences and personal settings are yours rather than the organization's, and they live in User Settings instead. The reverse is also true: anything that applies to somebody else, such as a budget or a security policy, is in the admin portal.

Related

• Administration & Billing — the section itself, in full
• Identity & Access — authentication, provisioning, and audit
• What lives in which portal — the two admin navs, menu by menu
• User Settings — the settings that are yours rather than the organization's
• Core concepts — organizations, workspaces, and the vocabulary these pages assume