Planned System Outage (Mon.) 4/24/2023 – (Sun.) 4/30/2023

ARCH Contractors will be performing facility wide maintenance beginning on April 24th. All Rockfish systems will be unavailable from April 24th at 12:01AM to April 30th at 12:01AM. During the maintenance, power to the facility will be intermittently offline in order to perform critical work. The Rockfish cluster will be offline for the entirety of […]
ARCH Selects Recipients of 2022 Mark O. Robbins Prize

Advanced Research Computing at Hopkins (ARCH) is honored to announce the winners of the 2022 Mark O. Robbins Prize in high performance computing. We would also like to thank our funding partners whose support makes these prizes possible: The Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI), the Institute for Data-Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES), and the departments of Physics, […]
Rockfish Named #414 in Top500.org’s June 2022 Top 500

ARCH At the beginning of June, 2022, Top500.org released their semi-annual list of the most powerful High Performance Computing systems in the world. We are proud to report that our very own Rockfish Cluster at Johns Hopkins ranked #414 at 1.9TFLOPs (trillions of calculations per second). Rockfish was also ranked 17th among US academic institutions. Watch for Rockfish on future […]
Somnath Ghosh Awarded 2022 Raymond D. Mindlin Medal

Somnath Ghosh Awarded 2022 Raymond D. Mindlin Medal We are honored to share that the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has selected Somnath Ghosh Ph.D., F.EMI, M.ASCE as the recipient of the 2022 Raymond D. Mindlin Medal. The Mindlin Medal, established in 2008 to honor late Columbia University Professor Raymond D. Mindlin, is awarded […]
Bluecrab Cluster Retiring

Bluecrab Cluster Retiring After 7.5 years of service, the Bluecrab Cluster will be retiring its compute resources as of June 7th 2022. Advanced Research Computing at Hopkins (ARCH) has deployed a new cluster called Rockfish. The Deans Office has contributed a condo to the Rockfish cluster so that PIs may resume their computation research. We have […]
Planned System Outage (Mon.) April 11th– (Fri.) April 15th

Planned System Outage (Mon.) April 11th– (Fri.) April 15th Contractors will be be performing an extended maintenance on our chiller system from April 11th at 7:00AM to April 15th at 5:00PM. It is necessary to complete this maintenance prior to the arrival of warm weather, and scheduling is subject to contractor availability. The chiller will be offline […]