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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.
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.
Research Data Storage Service (RDSS)
The Research Data Storage Service allows researchers to purchase fast, reliable data storage they can mount on their computer. See the following links for more information.
Globus data transfer tool
The Globus data transfer tool provides a fast and reliable way to transfer data between specified Northwestern storage systems and other Globus collections across the world. See the following links for more information.
Electronic Research Notebook Service
The Electronic Research Notebook Service (ERNS) allows any Northwestern researcher to use the LabArchives platform to store research notes and attachments, providing a permanent record of their research process.
Dryad data repository
Northwestern University subscribes to Dryad, a generalist data repository that NU researchers can use to share their research data at no cost to them. see the following links for more information.