Join Genomics Compute Cluster on Quest

Please complete this registration form to request access to the Genomics Nodes on Quest.

*** March 2025 Downtime ***

All allocation requests will be paused beginning on Friday, March 14. We're aiming to begin processing all pending requests again by Monday, April 7.


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

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In most cases, the principal investigator is a faculty member or a lab director who oversees the research project.

Please enter the email address of the principal investigator

Please provide a few sentence statement justifying your use of these resources including, the type of sequence data you’re working with, the organism(s) sequenced, your research question, and the type of analysis or software you’re planning to use. Please note that Northwestern University’s HPC resources can only be used to store data that is not subject to regulatory or compliance requirements, including but not limited to: HIPAA (Health Information Portability and Accountability Act), FISMA (Federal Information Security Management Act), Personal Information Protection Act of Illinois, or any other restrictions on data handling as required by research grants and projects.

We ask new GCC members to attend an orientation session on best practices for use of the GCC resources. Please use the links below to see upcoming sessions and to register for the date that works best for you. Note that individual events are either in person or virtual, none are hybrid, so please click on the date you are interested in to check the time and location.


Register for an in-person orientation session


Register for a virtual orientation session


Once you have registered, please indicate the date you are attending orientation in the box below.

If you plan to use Quest Analytics, please check here so you can be automatically added to the Quest-Analytics listserv. You may unsubscribe at any time; however, we recommend you stay subscribed to receive critical announcements regarding service availability, maintenance, and updates. Additional information about the Quest Analytics nodes is available here.

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•    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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