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Things every new Grad Student should know (IT edition)
Congratulations on getting into the program and welcome to UCSB. Here are some things we think w...
HPC Basics
GRIT High Performance Computing Environment (hpc.grit.ucsb.edu) The GRIT High Performance Comput...
Storage and Backups
Why Backups? True backup maintains time-based snapshots of your data, allowing you to restore ...
Scratch Space
The HPC stack currently has 20TB of available scratch space. /home/hpc-scratch is high-performanc...
Slurm Usage
To use the new HPC Cluster The new HPC cluster is available via a GUI to the SLURM interface, wh...
FAQ
Design Decisions | Resource Allocation | Jupyter Hub | R Studio | Cluster Scratch | AVX Support |...
SSH Key Setup
On a Mac, use Terminal / On a PC, use PowerShell or install WSL: https://learn.microsoft.com/...
Troubleshooting
Cluster Status: You can check the cluster status via zabbix Issues starting interactive apps P...
Anaconda
July 2026 NOTE: We're encouraging the use of pixi over anaconda, see this for example:https://boo...
Storage
Our current rate for storage is $16.56/TB/year(no minimum or commitment required, pay for what yo...
VS Code Server
VS Code server is a VS Code session that is run on the HPC cluster and access via a web UI. To La...
Paritions
The HPC SLURM queue has several available partitions. If no partition is specified the default is...
SSH MFA Setup
MFA Setup | Resetting MFA Token | SFTP via Bastion The GRIT ssh bastion host is heimdall.grit.uc...
Windows HPC
Access The windows HPC server is whpc-01.grit.ucsb.edu. It can be logged into with your GRIT SSO...
Using Rsync
Basic Rsync Usage rsync is a very powerful and widely used tool for moving data. The manual page...
Moving data with rsyncd (the rsync daemon)
This assumes we have setup a data share pointed at the rsyncd (d for daemon) and opened it up to ...
PIXI
What is Pixi? Pixi is a modern environment and package manager for scientific Python, data scien...
Jupyter Notebook
To launch a Jupyter Notebook on https://hpc.grit.ucsb.edu select Interactive apps from the top me...
CLI Usage
Getting on the cluster SSH: ssh hpc.grit.ucsb.eduYou’ll land on a compute node inside a Slur...
GPU Resources
The HPC cluster has NVIDIA L40S GPUs and an NVIDIA A30 spread across various hosts and resources....