Is it right for you?
A good fit
- Containerized workloads, including GPU jobs
- JupyterHub and interactive notebooks
- Collaborations that span several institutions
Not a fit
- Any protected data (HIPAA, FERPA, PII and similar); the NRP does not permit it
- Researchers who cannot work with containers and Kubernetes
- Work that needs reserved or predictable capacity
What it is
The National Research Platform (NRP) is a partnership of many institutions supported by federal funding. Its Nautilus cluster runs containerized research and education workloads on Kubernetes, with a mix of CPUs and GPUs and several storage options. UCR participates in the platform.
Data policy
The NRP states that its systems have no storage suitable for HIPAA, PII, FISMA, FERPA or other protected data, and that such data must not be stored there. Read the NRP policies before you start.
How to get started
Start with our researcher guide to NRP Nautilus, a series of eight articles: getting access, notebooks and desktops in the browser, batch and GPU jobs, storage, the hosted language models, hosting lab web tools, and teaching. To run jobs by asking an AI assistant, see the nrp-mcp quick start. The NRP documentation covers everything else. For UCR-specific questions, or help deciding whether Nautilus or the HPCC fits your work, contact Research Computing.