About Quest10 Nodes
The refresh will increase Quest’s General Access computing capacity, as detailed below:
213 Quest10 nodes replaced 161 Quest5 and Quest6 nodes. Each of the new nodes includes 2×26-core Intel 6230R CPUs (52 cores total) and 192 GB memory, offering more compute power than Quest5 and Quest6 nodes.
8 GPU nodes, each configured with 2xNVIDIA Tesla A100 GPUs, will replace 14 older generation GPU nodes (K40, K80), allowing us to exclusively host A100, V100, and P100 GPUs on Quest.
4 High-Memory nodes, each configured with 2×26-core Intel 6230R CPUs (52 cores total) and 1.5 TB memory will be added to Quest. Three of those nodes will replace the existing Quest Analytics Nodes that each include 2×14-core CPUs and 512 GB memory, and one node will be added to Quest General Access to run batch and interactive jobs.
Quest infrastructure, including the login nodes and Quest’s internal network will be upgraded to offer higher capacity nodes and faster communication between Quest’s nodes, improving parallel job speeds.
General Access
An additional 164 Quest10 nodes and 8 GPU nodes will be added to General Access in the coming months, which will significantly increase computing resources available. Please see the Quest Technical Specificationsfor more details about Quest’s computing resources.
I Want to Purchase New Nodes
If you plan to purchase nodes this year, please make a Quest purchase request .If you would like some advice or a consultation on what you should order you can reach out to at quest-help@northwestern.edu.
I Want to Run Exclusively on the New Nodes After Installation
If you want to run your jobs exclusively on Quest10 nodes, you will need to state this in your job script using the constraint flag (for example: #SBATCH –constraint=quest10). Please note that selecting a specific Quest architecture can limit the number of nodes accessible to your jobs and increase the job’s wait time.
Questions
Research Computing Services consultants are happy to meet with you virtually, one-on-one, to assist with data and computational challenges and questions you encounter in your research. Research Computing Consultation Services are free and available for all members of the Northwestern research community
For support requests, please free to email quest-help@northwestern.edu.