Quest Storage Maintenance

Scheduled Maintenance Report for Northwestern Information Technology

Completed

The software update has been completed successfully for the Quest HPC storage system.

Posted Mar 25, 2026 - 16:10 CDT

In progress

Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

Posted Mar 23, 2026 - 08:00 CDT

Scheduled

Northwestern IT will perform a software update for Quest HPC storage system between 8 a.m. on Monday, March 23 and 5 p.m. on Friday, March 27. This work is necessary to improve storage system security and reliability.

Impact on Quest Users:
- Quest remains available to use throughout the maintenance period and users will be able to submit and run jobs.
- Quest will experience brief periods of storage response slowdowns between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. each day during the maintenance window.

For any questions or issues related to Quest, please contact quest-help@northwestern.edu.

Posted Mar 10, 2026 - 09:33 CDT

This scheduled maintenance affected: Research Technologies and Support (Quest High-Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC) (Server Management)).