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This documentation is in draft and under active review. Figures for the Fall 2026 GPU reservation system are not yet published, and some pages describe behavior that has not been verified against a primary source. Confirm any figure with parasol@ucsd.edu before relying on it.

The pages in this section apply across Datahub and PARASOL (formerly DSMLP) rather than to one task. Look up an error message, a reservation event, or a term, or find whom to contact and the rules of use.

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Error Messages Error messages and failure symptoms with their causes and fixes, for signing in, command-line launches, kubectl get pods statuses, the reservation app, and code and notebooks.
Reservation Events The 15 Kubernetes events the reservation system writes on a GPU pod, what each means, and what to do; and the waiting states that produce no event.
Getting Help Support tiers and contacts, the contents of a support ticket, response targets, 1:1 Consultation, and administrative requests.
Glossary Definitions of the terms used across the documentation, in alphabetical order.
Coming from HPC HPC and Slurm terms and their PARASOL equivalents, differences from Slurm behavior, the Slurm compatibility wrappers and their limitations, and unsupported HPC features.
Managing a Group Privilege tiers, workspace manager actions, budgets and limits set by administrators, and the usage reports.
Policy Data classification, appropriate use, hosting of services, use of shared resources, self-supporting programs, and scheduled maintenance.
Software R and RStudio, MATLAB and GNU Octave, Stata, licensed software, complex and experimental capabilities, and software installed without a ticket.

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