The RHEL8 Pilot Environment is available for use now.
Starting Tuesday, December 10, seventy of the latest Intel Emerald Rapids CPU nodes (128 cores and 512GB of RAM) will be available to the RHEL8 Pilot, significantly increasing the compute capacity of this environment. With this expansion, the pilot environment will consist of twenty-four NVIDIA H100 GPU nodes (totaling ninety-six H100 cards) and 140 CPU nodes totaling 12,600 cores. Quest users are encouraged to test their workflows in RHEL8 Pilot environment to prepare for Quest moving completely to RHEL8 in March 2025. Detailed instructions are available on how to submit jobs for the new Operating System in the Knowledge Base article, RHEL8 Pilot Environment.
Quest is Northwestern's High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster. It is used by researchers throughout the university. Quest is managed by Northwestern IT Research Computing Services.
An overview of Quest and information about applying for an allocation (account) can be found on the Research Computing Services website.