February 2024 Newsletter

View our updates and announcements for the month of February.
Staff Spotlight: Jason Williams

We continue our Staff Spotlight highlighting the amazing work of Jason Williams, a Sr. System Engineer at ARCH.
Research Spotlight: Professor David Dowdy

David Dowdy is a Professor and Executive Vice Dean for Academic Affairs at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
His research group, TB Modeling and Translational Epidemiology Group, focuses on the dynamic/mechanistic modeling of diseases like HIV and Tuberculosis (TB) to inform public health decision-making.
February Training Sessions

February training Sessions ARCH will be providing the following training sessions: 1. SLURM Best Practices Date: Tuesday, February 6th 2:00 PM -4:00 PM Location: Bloomberg (P&A) 475 2. OpenOnDemand, Python Environments, R-Studio Date: Wednesday, February 7th, 2:00 -4:00 PM Location: Bloomberg (P&A) 475 Attendance on-premise is strongly recommended but sessions can be attended via Zoom. […]
January Training Sessions

January Training Sessions We will be providing the following training sessions: 1. General Linux and Rockfish Queueing System Date: Wednesday, January 17th, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Location: Bloomberg (P&A) 4752. Navigating Rockfish and New Queueing Configuration Date: Wednesday, January 17th, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Location: Bloomberg (P&A) 475Attendance on-premise is strongly recommended, but sessions can be attended via […]
Rockfish January Outage

Planned January Rockfish outage Latest Posts UPDATE: Jan 16, 12:00 pm EST The maintenance window has concluded. We recommend checking and/or restarting jobs that relied on home directories since they may have been interrupted during the outage. Original: Jan 4th, 3:00 pm EST Rockfish will experience an outage on Tuesday, January 16th from 08:30 AM to 02:30 […]
December 2023 Newsletter

View our announcements for the month of December 2023.
Rockfish Cluster Queue Configuration:
As of January 9th, 2024, partitions and cues will be reconfigured to allow more effective utilization of resources. We have made a video that describes the new configuration for the Rockfish cluster.
Staff Spotlight: Ricardo Jacomini

Ricardo Jacomini began his journey at Hopkins in 2018 as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Following that, he contributed to ARCH as a Software Engineer for two years before transitioning to the new role as an Assistant Research Scientist.
Planned December Rockfish Network Outage

Rockfish will experience brief network outages between 6:00 AM to 9:00 AM on Saturday, December 23rd.