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

Researcher guide to NRP Nautilus

Getting access to Nautilus: accounts, namespaces and kubectl

Notebooks, desktops and VS Code in the browser (JupyterHub, Coder)

Running batch jobs and GPU work on Nautilus with Kubernetes

Storage and moving data on Nautilus

Using the NRP's hosted large language models

Hosting a lab web tool or service on Nautilus

Teaching a class or workshop on Nautilus

Run Nautilus jobs from your AI assistant (nrp-mcp quick start)

Using CephRDS from the command line with rds-cli

Using CephRDS from other languages and tools (AWS CLI, R, s5cmd, Julia, MATLAB)

Researcher guide to the OSPool and OSDF

Getting access to the OSPool: application, orientation and first login

Moving data on the OSPool: home, OSDF, quotas and results

Submitting OSPool jobs and getting results

Researcher guide to the Open Storage Network (OSN)

Getting OSN storage: ACCESS allocation, portal sign-in and bucket request

Moving data in and out of OSN: rclone, AWS CLI, Cyberduck and Python

Using OSN from compute systems: HPCC, Nautilus, OSPool and notebooks

Researcher guide to Jetstream2

Your first Jetstream2 VM: create, connect, work, shelve

GPU VMs on Jetstream2: NVIDIA A100 for AI and simulation

Managing Jetstream2 VMs and SUs: shelve, resize, image, volumes, delete

Host a web app or study server on Jetstream2, with HTTPS

GPU jobs on the OSPool

Common OSPool job types: sweeps, Monte Carlo, per-file pipelines and workflows

Containerize your research software with an AI coding agent

Try the OSPool today in your browser (OSPool Notebooks)

Getting started on FABRIC: sign up, join a project and run your first slice

Getting started on Chameleon: sign in, join a project and launch your first bare-metal node

Porting PyTorch and GPU research code to Google Cloud TPUs with an AI coding agent

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