Quest September 2023 Maintenance Updates and Upgrades
Posted September 23, 2023
Northwestern IT successfully completed fall 2023 Quest maintenance during the week of September 18. Read on to learn more about the completed work and...Category: Research Computing
Quest Global Scratch Space Launches November 1st
Posted October 24, 2022
Northwestern Information Technology is pleased to announce Quest scratch space, a new service available free of charge to all users in active Quest allocations. ...
Updates and Upgrades During Quest’s September 2022 Downtime
Posted September 19, 2022
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...
2021 Computational Research Services Annual Report
Posted March 4, 2022
Computational Research Services within the Northwestern IT Research Computing Services enables the use of Northwestern’s central computing resources, including Quest, the Quest Analytics Nodes,...
Quest Node Refresh: What is new?
Posted November 1, 2021
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....
Supporting Research Software and Research Software Engineers
Posted October 7, 2019
This post accompanies a poster to be presented at Educause 2019 Conference, which brings together IT professionals in higher education. If you’re looking for...
Research Computing on the Road: PEARC19
Posted August 23, 2019
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...
Moving Quest to the Slurm Scheduler
Posted May 13, 2019
In the 10 years since the Quest high-performance computing cluster was first introduced, usage of computational services has continued to grow and expand across...