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Category: News and Announcements

Quest September 2023 Maintenance Updates and Upgrades

Northwestern IT successfully completed fall 2023 Quest maintenance during the week of September 18. Read on to learn more about the completed work and...
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Data Science Student Consultant Program Openings for 2023-2024

Do you know Python or R?  Do you like to help others with their technical problems?  Then join our team as a student Data...
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Interactively Visualizing Millions of Data Points in a Web Browser Using Firefly

As datasets become larger and more complex, exploring and extracting information from them has become commensurately more difficult. Yet large and complex data sets...
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Student Opportunities – January 2023

Open Position: Research Computing Student Consultant Deadline: Priority will be given to applications received by January 23, 2023 and applications close on January 27,...
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Quest Global Scratch Space Launches November 1st

Northwestern Information Technology is pleased to announce Quest scratch space, a new service available free of charge to all users in active Quest allocations. ...
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Updates and Upgrades During Quest’s September 2022 Downtime

With the successful completion of the most recent Quest downtime, occurring September 12-19, 2022, I am pleased to share with you some details about...
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Quest Node Refresh: What is new?

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....
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Computational-and Data-Related Opportunities to Support COVID-19 Research

As research surrounding COVID-19 has ramped up, we would like to provide you with resources that may be of help. Please see below for...
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Research Computing on the Road: PEARC19

PEARC is a conference centered around sharing the most advanced research computing methods and technologies to researchers. This year’s conference was held in Chicago...
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Check out the Love Data Week Poster Contest Winner

Since 2016, Love Data Week (previously Love Your Data Week) has brought together thousands of academics, professionals, and students across the country to build...
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