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The GRIT LLM server is available at llm.grit.ucsb.edu. It can be logged into with your GRIT credentials, or you can create an account with an email address if you dont have a GRIT account. 

GRIT Core Services vs. Recharge Services Below is a long list of the basic services that are covered under the MOU's between GRIT and the supported research units. Note that privately owned and exclusively accessed servers are not included in baseline servi...

You can find instructions on CrashPlan File Recovery here.

Python VENV To install a custom kernel with whatever python modules you prefer please run the following, either via an ssh session to an hpc system or via the terminal application within jupyterhub: python3 -m venv ~/venvs/mytorch . ~/venvs/mytorch/bin/acti...

Cluster Status: You can check the cluster status via zabbix Issues starting interactive apps If you encounter an issue submitting an interactive job select the Session ID. This will take you to the session log files.  Download the script.sh and output.lo...

NOTE  THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS! How to schedule jobs with SLURM  Using `scrontab` with SLURM: Periodic Job Scheduling In SLURM, `scrontab` is a tool that allows users to schedule **periodic jobs** using a familiar cron-like syntax. This is useful for a...

To launch an R Studio session on https://hpc.grit.ucsb.edu select Interactive apps from the top menu bar and select R Studio from the dropdown.  Once in the R Studio spawner page you will need to fill in the following fields: Account: your GRIT account n...

Getting on the cluster SSH: ssh hpc.grit.ucsb.eduYou’ll land on a compute node inside a Slurm-backed interactive session (the login host forwards you automatically). File transfers: scp, rsync, sftp, etc, still work as usual to hpc.grit.ucsb.edu. ...

Text for use in proposals. Original version and more info is here:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fcc9LwYzwC8_GF-q0Ad_HSdHJweauC_UOw40SDlBBdY/edit?tab=t.0 IT Infrastructure: Information and technical infrastructure we utilize will be managed in coordina...

We have setup Linux desktop access via web accessible VNC on https://hpc.grit.ucsb.edu. The VMs are Ubuntu 24.04 with an xcfe desktop and a small handful of utilities installed including the spyder python IDE.  To launch a desktop session select the Desktop o...

Authentik / GRIT Single Sign On GRIT is rolling out Single Sign On (SSO) via Authentik to as many resources as possible in order to reduce the burden of passwords and multi-factor authentication (MFA). When signing in to a service with SSO you will initially ...

This assumes we have setup a data share pointed at the rsyncd (d for daemon) and opened it up to a specific range of remote IP addresses.  Get a list of files on in your GRIT managed folder 'mydata' rsync --list-only rsync://reflection.grit.ucsb.edu/mydata/ ...

VS Code server is a VS Code session that is run on the HPC cluster and access via a web UI. To Launch a session select the VS Code Server interactive app from the hpc.grit.ucsb.edu dashboard or the Interactive apps dropdown. After selecting the application you...

To create an ENVI icon to launch ENVI from your HPC desktop: Open an Desktop session from HPC.grit.ucsb.edu Right-click on the desktop and select Create Launcher Use these settings:Name: ENVICommand: /home/itt/enviChoose whatever icon you would likeCheck ...

Selecting Job Resources (more resources doesn't make it faster): When starting a job you are given options for the amount of CPU and RAM that will be allotted to the job. Selecting too few resources can result in the job failing, and selecting too many can re...

The HPC stack currently has 20TB of available scratch space at: /home/scratch-hpc This storage area is open to all and not backed up. Additionally any files not used within 3 months will be removed automatically. 

To get access our systems, you need to set up a password. The GRIT domain password setup/reset portal can be found here: https://selfservice.grit.ucsb.edu/ Enter your netID (not full email address) in the Login field (ex. jgaucho).  After clicking ...

scrontab is Slurm’s “cron”—it lets you schedule recurring batch jobs (hourly, daily, weekly, etc.) to run on the cluster without you being logged in. It works a lot like Linux crontab, but submits jobs to Slurm.  How you use it Open your schedule: scrontab...