High-Performance Computing (Quest)
Northwestern IT offers support, training, and computational resources for high-performance and high-throughput computing on Quest, Northwestern’s high-performance computing (HPC) cluster. Housed at one of the University's secure data center facilities, Quest offers a large, shared computational facility. Quest is suitable for workloads requiring large amounts of computational resources, including parallel computation, data processing and analysis, multi-stage pipelines, and long-running batch computing jobs. Support for using national facilities, such as XSEDE, and cloud resources, such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure is also available.
Features and Benefits
The Quest Analytics Nodes offer Jupyter, RStudio, and SAS Studio for interactive analysis in a web browser, backed by Quest’s file system and computational resources beyond what is normally available on a personal workstation.
The Genomics Compute Cluster is a portion of Quest and is available to all researchers doing computational research in the field of genomics. Support for use of the cluster, building and troubleshooting pipelines, and training is available.
Quest is not HIPAA-compliant and is not suitable for storing or analyzing personally-identifiable information (PII).
Northwestern IT also facilitates access to national shared computing resources via XSEDE and offers support and training for cloud computing environments. HIPAA-compliant computing environments can be created using cloud services.
Available to
- University Researchers
- Faculty
- Undergraduate Students
- Graduate Students
- Postdoctoral Researchers
- Staff
Cost
How to Request Service
Last Updated: 5 September 2019
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