NU@Nightingale#
Northwestern partners with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) to provide Northwestern researchers with access to Nightingale for analysis and storage of sensitive data. Nightingale is a high-performance compute (HPC) cluster compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and security rules for using Protected Health Information (PHI), as well as Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) policies such as the NIH policies that apply to dbGaP.
About the NU@Nightingale Service and Resources#
Compute and Storage Resources : Nightingale’s hardware specifications and overview from the NCSA
Using Nightingale#
Northwestern Researcher Onboarding Process: If you are interested in using Nightingale for your research and do not yet have access, start here.
Using Nightingale: Documentation on how to connect to Nightingale once you have an account, and usage tips for Northwestern researchers.
Importing and Exporting Data: How to transfer data to and from Nightingale.
Getting Help: Information on user support for Nightingale.
NCSA’s Nightingale User Guide : Official user documentation from NCSA.