Weinberg College Computing Cluster on Quest
The Weinberg College Computing Cluster on Quest is a set of purchased CPU, GPU, and storage resources that are available to Weinberg researchers on Quest, Northwestern’s high-performance computing cluster.
Eligibility
All researchers from the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences are eligible to use the resources.
How to Access the Weinberg College Computing Cluster
Weinberg researchers can reach out to wits@northwestern.edu and request that they be added to the resources.
Compute and Storage Resources
Quest Overview
Housed in the University Data Center, Quest supports a broad range of computational workflows across many domains. The system hosts over 1300 compute nodes and a variety of powerful GPUs for accelerated computing.
The data is hosted in a parallel file system that is accessible from all nodes through a high-speed InfiniBand network fabric. See the Quest Technical Specifications and the Quest User Guide for more information.
Compute Nodes
The Weinberg College Compute cluster provides priority access to 1 GPU and 5 CPU nodes:
- One GPU node, with 4 NVIDIA Tesla H100 (80GB SXM5) cards, 64 cores provided by Emerald Rapids Processors, and 1 TB memory
- Five CPU Nodes with 128 Intel Emerald Rapids Processors and 512 GB RAM per node
Quest uses the Slurm workload manager for job scheduling. The GPU node is dedicated for use by members of the Weinberg College Compute cluster only.
While CPU resources are not in use by Weinberg researchers, jobs of up to 48 hours in length from other users may land on the nodes. See example scripts for submitting jobs to GPU and regular (CPU-only) nodes for the Weinberg Compute cluster on GitHub.