HPC Usage

HPC Basics

Introduction Here are the basics for new users of the High Performance Computing (HPC) offered b...

Slurm Usage

To use the new HPC Cluster The new HPC cluster is available via a GUI to the SLURM interface, wh...

Using Rsync

Basic Rsync Usage rsync is a very powerful and widely used tool for moving data. The manual page...

MATLAB Usage

Using Matlab via CLI Some options of interest: --nodesktop - skips firing up the desktop at...

The 'screen' program

screen can be used when running jobs to allow you to disconnect your computer from a remote termi...

Jupyter access locations (public)

Jupyter Web UI available at these addresses. Public https://hpc-01.grit.ucsb.edu/jupyter ✔️ ...

R Packages Notes

We tend to install R with all the packages, so if you're finding one make sure that you are seein...

Copernicus Data API Install/Usage

From scratch Install mini conda https://docs.anaconda.com/miniconda/miniconda-install/ source ...

XRDP and Jupyter

Using a remote desktop/XRDP to connect to an HPC desktop and then run jupyter in the browser fo...

Regarding VS Code

WE RECOMMEND PYCHARM INSTEAD (for all your python needs)! We have no shortage of issues with vsc...

a note on long running rstudio jobs

r-studio, R Studio, rstudio, RStudio Problem:  I have to run very time intensive code overnight...

Rust

Rust  The preferred Rust installation method is to do so in your user home folder. This allows f...

R Studio tmp directory

Setting a new tmp directory often when using packages like raster the /tmp/ directory will fill ...

Using environments with jupyterhub

How to enable a conda environment in jupyterhub. From the jupyterhub web interface: 1) Click the...

OpenOndemand

Documentation for the GRIT  HPC cluster. 

GRIT LLM

The GRIT LLM server is available at llm.grit.ucsb.edu. It can be logged into with your GRIT crede...

Running recurring jobs with scrontab

NOTE  THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS! How to schedule jobs with SLURM  Using `scrontab` with SLU...