Quest and Kellogg Linux Cluster Downtime, December 14 - 18.
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, December 14, and ending approximately at 5 P.M. on Wednesday, December 18. 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 - November 18.
Starting November 18, all Quest users are invited to test and run their workflows in a RHEL8 pilot environment to prepare for Quest moving completely to RHEL8 in March 2025. We invite researchers to provide us with feedback during the pilot by contacting the Research Computing and Data Services team at quest-help@northwestern.edu. The pilot environment will consist of 24 H100 GPU nodes and seventy-two CPU nodes, and it will expand with additional nodes through March 2025. Details on how to access this pilot environment will be published in a KB article on November 18.
This document describes how to manage access to Research Data Storage Service (RDSS) shares.
After the initial share setup, the RDSS allows share owners/managers to control who has access to the files and folders stored within their share using the Self-Service Group Management Tool. Only those with NetIDs can be given access to RDSS shares. You can request affiliate or guest NetIDs for external collaborators.
Note: FSMResFiles share owners do not have access to this tool and should contact FSM-IT (fsmhelp@northwestern.edu) for help managing user access to their shares.
Access to each share is controlled through two Active Directory (AD) groups:
- NU SMB <sharename> Read-Only gives users read only access
- NU SMB <sharename> Read-Write gives users read-write access
Adding/removing users from these groups will grant/remove permissions to the RDSS share.
To access these AD groups:
- Log in to the Self-Service Group Management Tool with your Northwestern NetID and password
- Click on My AD groups in the left hand panel.
- You should see a read only and a read-write group for each share that you own/manage
See Managing group permissions using the Self-Service Group Management tool for instructions on how to add or remove users from these lists.
Need help?
If you are in the appropriate access group for a share but cannot access it, email rdss-help@northwestern.edu for help.
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.