Quest and Kellogg Linux Cluster Downtime, March 22 - 31.
Quest, including the Quest Analytics Nodes, the Genomics Compute Cluster (GCC), the Kellogg Linux Cluster (KLC), and Quest OnDemand, will be unavailable for scheduled maintenance starting at 8 A.M. on Saturday, March 22, and ending approximately at 5 P.M. on Monday, March 31. During the maintenance window, you will not be able to login to Quest, Quest Analytics Nodes, the GCC, KLC, or Quest OnDemand submit new jobs, run jobs, or access files stored on Quest in any way including Globus. For details on this maintenance, please see the Status of University IT Services page.
Quest RHEL8 Pilot Environment
The RHEL8 Pilot Environment is available for use now.
Ahead of the March 2025 Downtime, Quest users have the opportunity to test their software and research workflows on CPU nodes and NVIDIA H100 GPU nodes which are running the new RHEL8 OS. Detailed instructions are available on how to submit jobs for the new Operating System in the Knowledge Base article, RHEL8 Pilot Environment.
RHEL8 Pilot Quest log-in nodes can be access via ssh or FastX through using the hostname login.quest.northwestern.edu. Please note that the new hostname login.quest.northwestern.edu will require the GlobalProtect VPN when outside of the United States.
RHEL8 Pilot Quest Analytics nodes can be access via: rstudio.quest.northwestern.edu, jupyterhub.quest.northwestern.edu, and sasstudio.quest.northwestern.edu.
This article describes how to disconnect from your RDSS share. See operating specific instructions below.
MacOSX
- Open a Finder window
- Locate your mounted file share on the left side of the window. Depending on where your share is located, it will be called one of the following:
- resfiles.northwestern.edu
- fsmresfiles.northwestern.edu
- resfiles-audit.northwestern.edu
- Click the eject button to the right of the mounted drive.
Windows
- Open the File Explorer
- Locate your mounted network drive in the navigation pane on the left side of the File Explorer window. The mounted drive will have a drive letter assigned to it (R:, Z:, etc.) and it will be called one of the following:
- SHARE_NAME (\\resfiles.northwestern.edu)
- SHARE_NAME (\\fsmresfiles.northwestern.edu)
- SHARE_NAME (\\resfiles-audit.northwestern.edu)
- To unmount the drive, use the right mouse button on the mounted drive to bring up the contextual menu and select Disconnect
Linux
Requirements
You must have root level access to your machine.
- Login as root to your linux machine
- From the command line, use the mount command to output a list of your mounted drives. Depending on where your share is located, it will be called one of the following:
- <netid>@resfiles.northwestern.edu on /mountpoint
- <netid>@ fsmresfiles.northwestern.edu on /mountpoint
- <netid>@ resfiles-audit.northwestern.edu on /mountpoint
Where <NetID> is your Northwestern NetID and mountpoint is the mountpoint you created when you mapped the network drive.
3. To unmount, type umount /mountpoint, replacing /mountpoint with the local directory that your share is mounted to.
Need Help?
Email rdss-help@northwestern.edu if you have questions or need help using RDSS.
Also see our Research Data Management Guide for links to all of our help articles.
Research Data Management Support at Northwestern University
Research computing data services partners with the Office for Research, University Libraries and Galter Health Sciences Library to provide research data management support throughout the research process. Please see the Research Data Management and Sharing page for more information.