4.1 Available resources

HPC resources available to emLab researchers

	Cores	RAM	GPU	USE
quebracho	64	1TB	Yes	Only land-use projects (for now)
sequoia	192	1.5TB	No	All other emLab research
Knot	1,500	48 GB - 1TB	Yes	UCSB shared resource
Pod	~2,600	190 GB - 1.5 TB	Yes	UCSB shared resource
Braid2	~2,200	192 - 368 GB	Yes	UCSB condo cluster (PI must buy node)

The emLab SOP will focus on using quebracho and sequoia. For further information on using other UCSB campus resources, you can refer to our specific guide on that. However please note that this guide is several years out-of-date, and you may find better and more current information directly on a UCSB website. Additionally, now that we have our own HPC servers, we no longer recommend using Google Compute Engine, which is a pay-as-you-go cloud computing server. It can be quite expensive, and has setup challenges as compared to our own servers. However, if you need to use GCE for whatever reason, emLab alumni Grant McDermott wrote a very helpful tutorial on using R Studio Server on GCE.