Part 1: Transitioning Your Workflow from Your Computer to Quest

Workshop Details

Learn everything you need to know to start incorporating Northwestern’s high-performance computing cluster, Quest (including the Genomics Compute Cluster), into your computational and data workflows effectively and efficiently, all in a single day.  

This workshop is designed for new Quest users.  Researchers who are already familiar with how to transfer data to and from Quest, manage their files on Quest, and submit basic batch jobs to Quest may prefer to attend only Part 2 and/or Part 3 instead.   

Prerequisites: Attendees should request a Quest allocation, join an existing Quest allocation from their research group, or join the Genomics Compute Cluster at least a week before the workshop if they do not already have access to Quest.   

Attendees will learn how to: 

• Transfer data to and from Quest 

• Manage research data storage across multiple storage platforms 

• Use Quest’s home, project, and scratch storage spaces, including storage associated with the Genomics Compute Cluster 

• Manage file and directory permissions on Quest 

• Share data on Quest with collaborators 

• Use the command line to connect to and navigate Quest 

• Connect to Quest via web browser interfaces: Quest OnDemand and Quest Analytics Nodes for GUI-based apps like RStudio and Jupyter Notebook 

• Submit basic batch computational jobs to Quest 

• Monitor your submitted jobs 

Event Details

All Research Computing Basics and Beyond workshops are held in person; there is no hybrid option or recording available. These are interactive, hands-on workshops; participants are required to bring their laptop and charger.

Lunch breaks will be provided; participants are responsible for their own lunch.

Attendees

Members of the Northwestern community with an active Northwestern NetID as of the date of the workshop are eligible to attend. Registrations made by those without an active NetID may be cancelled. If you will be at Northwestern this summer, but do not yet have a NetID, please register but email nuit_rcds@northwestern.edu to let us know of the situation.

Refunds and Cancellations

Research Computing Basics and Beyond refunds (minus Eventbrite and credit card fees) will be given to cancellations seven (7) days before the event.

Northwestern registrants needing to cancel with fewer than seven (7) days notice can contact nuit_rcds@northwestern.edu for possible refunds.