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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...

Updated 3 days ago by Alex Feldwinn

HPC Basics

HPC Usage

GRIT High Performance Computing Environment (hpc.grit.ucsb.edu) The GRIT High Performance Comput...

Updated 1 month ago by michael bales

Storage and Backups

GRIT Menu of Services

Why Backups? True backup maintains time-based snapshots of your data, allowing you to restore ...

Updated 1 month ago by michael colee

Scratch Space

HPC Usage OpenOnDemand - OOD

The HPC stack currently has 20TB of available scratch space. /home/hpc-scratch is high-performanc...

Updated 1 month ago by michael bales

Slurm Usage

HPC Usage

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

Updated 1 month ago by michael bales

FAQ

HPC Usage OpenOnDemand - OOD

Design Decisions | Resource Allocation | Jupyter Hub | R Studio | Cluster Scratch | AVX Support |...

Updated 1 month ago by michael bales

SSH Key Setup

Remote Access

On a Mac, use Terminal  / On a PC, use PowerShell   or install WSL: https://learn.microsoft.com/...

Updated 1 month ago by michael bales

Troubleshooting

HPC Usage OpenOnDemand - OOD

Cluster Status: You can check the cluster status via zabbix Issues starting interactive apps P...

Updated 1 month ago by michael bales

Anaconda

Python User Docs

July 2026 NOTE: We're encouraging the use of pixi over anaconda, see this for example:https://boo...

Updated 2 months ago by Brian Emery

Storage

Our current rate for storage is $16.56/TB/year(no minimum or commitment required, pay for what yo...

Updated 2 months ago by Alex Feldwinn

VS Code Server

HPC Usage OpenOnDemand - OOD

VS Code server is a VS Code session that is run on the HPC cluster and access via a web UI. To La...

Updated 2 months ago by michael bales

Paritions

HPC Usage OpenOnDemand - OOD

The HPC SLURM queue has several available partitions. If no partition is specified the default is...

Updated 2 months ago by Brian Emery

SSH MFA Setup

Remote Access

MFA Setup | Resetting MFA Token | SFTP via Bastion The GRIT ssh bastion host is heimdall.grit.uc...

Updated 2 months ago by michael bales

Windows HPC

HPC Usage

Access The windows HPC server is whpc-01.grit.ucsb.edu. It can be logged into with your GRIT SSO...

Updated 3 months ago by michael bales

Using Rsync

HPC Usage

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

Updated 3 months ago by Brian Emery

Moving data with rsyncd (the rsync daemon)

HPC Usage

This assumes we have setup a data share pointed at the rsyncd (d for daemon) and opened it up to ...

Updated 3 months ago by Brian Emery

PIXI

HPC Usage

What is Pixi? Pixi is a modern environment and package manager for scientific Python, data scien...

Updated 3 months ago by michael bales

Jupyter Notebook

HPC Usage OpenOnDemand - OOD

To launch a Jupyter Notebook on https://hpc.grit.ucsb.edu select Interactive apps from the top me...

Updated 4 months ago by Alex Feldwinn

CLI Usage

HPC Usage OpenOnDemand - OOD

Getting on the cluster SSH: ssh hpc.grit.ucsb.eduYou’ll land on a compute node inside a Slur...

Updated 4 months ago by michael bales

GPU Resources

HPC Usage OpenOnDemand - OOD

The HPC cluster has NVIDIA L40S GPUs and an NVIDIA A30 spread across various hosts and resources....

Updated 4 months ago by michael bales