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SLURM
scrontab is Slurm’s “cron”—it lets you schedule recurring batch jobs (hourly, daily, weekly, etc....
FAQ
Selecting Job Resources When starting a job you are given options for the amount of CPU and RAM ...
Slurm Usage
To use the new HPC Cluster The new HPC cluster is available via a GUI to the SLURM interface, wh...
Scratch Space
The HPC stack currently has 20TB of available scratch space at: /home/scratch-hpc This storage ...
GRIT AD Password Reset
To get access our systems, you need to set up a password. The GRIT domain password setup/reset p...
IDL Aliases
Adding Aliases note that the latest version is located at: /home/itt/idl older versions can be...
ENVI
To create an ENVI icon to launch ENVI from your HPC desktop: Open an Desktop session from HPC.gr...
Linux Desktop
We have setup Linux desktop access via web accessible VNC on https://hpc.grit.ucsb.edu. The VMs a...
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...
VS Code
Supported VS Code Options We offer VS Code via the HPC Desktop application as well as the HPC VS...
Troubleshooting
Cluster Status: You can check the cluster status via zabbix Issues starting interactive apps I...
R Studio
To launch an R Studio session on https://hpc.grit.ucsb.edu select Interactive apps from the top m...
Jupyter Notebook
To launch a Jupyter Notebook on https://hpc.grit.ucsb.edu select Interactive apps from the top me...
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...
Mounting SMB Storage
Note: SMB works from wired networks and from the VPN, but not from campus wireless. If you want t...
Storage and Backups
Why Backups? True backup maintains time-based snapshots of your data, allowing you to restore ...
Getting Started
CrashPlan is available to UCSB researchers (4 desktop/laptop devices per person). No you can't...
CLI Usage
Getting on the cluster SSH: ssh hpc.grit.ucsb.eduYou’ll land on a compute node inside a Slur...
HPC Basics
Introduction Here are the basics for new users of the High Performance Computing (HPC) offered b...
moving data with rsyncd
This assumes we have setup a data share pointed at the rsyncd (d for daemon) and opened it up to ...