Allocations

Rockfish supports several types of allocations:

Faculty members at Johns Hopkins University can request allocations using the Rockfish portal found here. This portal is a great tool for PIs to manage their allocations, users and accounts. For information on requesting an allocation, watch this video.

Allocations will be reset on a quarterly basis. The model is “use it or lose it”. Any unused part of an allocation will not roll over to the next quarter.

NOTE:  All projects must submit periodic reports via the Rockfish portal. 

MRI-Related Allocations

All MRI-based allocations will persist until Rockfish’s end of life (end of year 2026). 

Condo-related allocations:
  • Dean’s Condo allocations
    • The Dean’s offices for each school will provide small/startup allocations. These allocations are available to any faculty member at Johns Hopkins University.
  • PIs are strongly encouraged to contribute condos (see Condos and Colocation Page)
    • PIs who contribute condos will have an allocation (or additional allocation) equivalent to the size of the condo.
    • For example a one node condo is equivalent to 100,000 core-hours per quarter.
  • Condo storage and purchased storage. This allocation is composed of the storage given by default plus the size of the storage purchased. It may cover different file sets.
  • New faculty members will have allocations equivalent to the size of the condo in their LOI, or as offered by the Dean’s office.
  • Please use https://coldfront.rockfish.jhu.edu to request an allocation