Knowledge Base

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Archived reference articles for earlier arrangements, kept for people who still work that way.

Knowledge base

Numbered articles

Research data storage at UCR: choosing by stage

When your Ursa Major project is ready

Overleaf: "account already registered" error

Getting an HPCC account

Ursa Major service tiers

Clinical and HIPAA applications: where to host them

Ursa Major recharge projects: how setup works

Using the NAIRR Pilot

Using NSF ACCESS and Jetstream2

Research Computing resource catalog

Signing in: accounts and identity by service

Using Ursa Major archive storage

Connecting to CephRDS (S3 Object Storage)

Secure research enclave: a guide for researchers

Secure enclave onboarding checklist

Secure enclave: data transfer rules

Troubleshooting Overleaf Professional Access (SSO Entitlement)

Accessing CephRDS with Python (boto3)

Accessing CephRDS via Graphical S3 Clients

Mounting CephRDS Buckets as Local Drives

Requesting an Ursa Major (Google Cloud) project

Migrating Workloads from Google Cloud to HPCC

How-to guides

Accessing an Ursa Major storage bucket

AlphaFold on a Slurm cluster with Google Cloud Filestore

Connecting to an Ursa Major research workstation

Connecting to the HPC Cluster

Creating an Ursa Major storage bucket

Distributed PyTorch training with Kubeflow Trainer

How to Automate Data Deletion in AWS S3 with Lifecycle Policies

How to Mount Google Drive on Linux using Rclone

LLM Inference Settings

Launching an Ursa Major HPC cluster

Launching an Ursa Major research workstation

Mounting Google Cloud Storage on Linux with rclone

Running BLAST Searches on the HPCC Cluster

Running Genomics Nextflow Pipelines on the UCR HPCC Cluster

Running open-source language models with Ollama

Submitting jobs to OSG

Transferring Data from UCR HPCC to External Centers using Globus Connect Personal

UCR Data Security Plans (DSP)

Ursa Major HPC clusters

Ursa Major cloud storage

Ursa Major guidelines

Ursa Major project budgets and spending alerts

Ursa Major research services

Ursa Major research workstations

What is High-Performance Computing (HPC)?