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 or to XSEDE.
MRI-Related Allocations
- PIs who participated in the proposal to NSF should submit a short proposal justifying the request for cpu-cycles and storage.
- Regular cpu-cycles. This allocation will allow the use of the regular/standard compute nodes. The limit is 750,000 core-hours per quarter.
- Large memory cpu-cycles. This allocation will allow the use of large memory nodes. Applications and simulations must use more than 192GB of memory. Limit 50,000 core-hours per quarter.
- GPU allocation. This allocation will allow the use of GPU nodes. All scientific applications should make use of the GPUs. Limit 50,000 core-hours.
- Storage (GPFS) allocations. This allocation will assign storage to the group on an annual basis.
Condo-related allocations:
- Deans’ Condo allocations
- The Dean’s office will offer small/startup faculty members allocations. These allocations WILL follow the MRI-topics and will be part of the annual report to the funding agency.
- Morgan State University allocations
- A subset of allocations will follow a model developed at Morgan State University as a partner for this grant.
- XSEDE allocations
- Follows the process established for XSEDE allocations (XRAC)
- 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.