Renew Research I Allocation

This form is to renew a research I allocation.

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If you have any questions, please email quest-help@northwestern.edu

Your Name*

Please enter the first and last name of the researcher who will manage the allocation.

Your NetID*

Please enter the NetID of the researcher who will manage the allocation.

Your Email Address*

Please enter the email address of the researcher who will manage the allocation.

Your Allocation*

Please enter the name of the allocation that you are renewing. Allocation names contain a letter and numbers, such as p12345.

Your School*

Please enter the school you belong to.

Select or enter value

Your department*

Please enter the department you belong to.

Your Affiliation*

Select or enter value

Principal Investigator Name*

Please enter the first and last name of the principal investigator. In most cases, the principal investigator is a faculty member or a lab director who oversees the research projects.

Principal Investigator NetID*

Please enter the NetID of the principal investigator. If you are both the manager and principal investigator, please re-enter your info.

Principal Investigator Email Address*

Please enter the email address of the principal investigator. If you are both the manager and principal investigator, please re-enter your info.

NetIDs of other allocation members

If the allocation is being renewed prior to its expiration date, the existing users will continue to have access to the allocation. Nevertheless, you can use this field to add any additional user. To remove users, email quest-help@northwestern.edu. If the allocation is already expired, you are the only member of your allocation. If you would like, you may use this opportunity to add other researchers to your allocation. If you choose to do so, please place a space or comma in-between each NetID.

DOIs associated with this research

Please enter any DOIs of publications associated with the research done using this allocation. Press enter to create a new line for each entry.

Would you like to request a consultation with Research Computing Services?*

If you are requesting a consultation, please provide more information by submitting the Consultation Request form.

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Will members of your allocation be using compute resources or only storage space?*

Select

Compute Allocation

If you have selected Storage Only, please enter the allocation from which you will use compute resources.

Is your research supported by any of the following?*

You will not be charged for this allocation. This information provides Northwestern with information about the research Quest supports.

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Please provide the chart string(s) associated with the grant(s) that support the research associated with the requested allocation.*

You will not be charged for this allocation. This information provides Northwestern with information about the research Quest supports.

Statement of Purpose*

Please provide your statement of purpose in the box below. The statement of purpose should clarify how this allocation is expected to be used. Specifically, please address the following:

A brief description of your research goal(s).
A brief description of your data input(s) and output(s)
Please explain how Quest has helped the research so far and list any publication, grant, thesis, etc. made available by using Quest.
[Optional] A brief description of your compute resource type (GPU, High Memory, or CPU).
[Optional] A brief description of the software you are or plan to use on Quest.

For more information on the requirements for a successful proposal, click here.

You must agree to and accept all of the following terms, if you intend to use the Quest cluster.*

• Data storage on Quest is restricted to active research. You can use other data storage services at Northwestern to store your research data on a long-term basis. This includes the Research Data Storage Service (RDSS) and to a lesser degree Northwestern OneDrive/SharePoint.

• You cannot share your NetID and password with another user. If you want another person at Northwestern University to access your data, submit an application to join an existing allocation.

• If you are planning to submit a large number of jobs on Quest and have never done this before, please contact an HPC Specialist for guidance. You can contact us at quest-help@northwestern.edu. Jobs that crash the scheduler will be deleted from the system and in some circumstances your access to Quest will be suspended until this is resolved.

• Please remove or migrate unneeded data on Quest to another Northwestern University storage service or to another computer that is not part of the Quest cluster. Data stored on Quest will be automatically removed after the allocation expires without warning.

• You cannot use Quest to mine bitcoins or backup your personal computer. The Quest resources are not available for these purposes.

• Deliberate or inadvertent misuse of the Quest resources may result in your associated accounts being locked, your running jobs canceled, and your access to the cluster terminated.

• Your email address will automatically be added to the Quest-Announce and NUIT-Research listservs when your account is created. You may unsubscribe yourself at any time; however, we recommend you stay subscribed to Quest-Announce to receive critical announcements regarding service availability, maintenance, and updates.

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