Category: News
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Farewell Marianne!
With gratitude for her years of valuable contributions, we wish Marianne Moore the best as she moves on from the SubMIT Project Team to pursue her new position at Fermilab as KICP Postdoctoral Fellow and Fermilab Theory Research Associate! As our users are aware, over the past 3 years, Marianne has been a rapid responder to…
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Summary of the SubMIT Users Meeting on May 5th
The SubMIT team recently held its monthly users meeting in May with updates from both the project team and user community. SubMIT Overview & NewsMarianne Moore, our project team member, summarized recent upgrades of HTCondor, Slurm, Ceph storage, and the AlmaLinux operating system. She shared news about our monitoring of job efficiencies on HTCondor and…
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Slurm Software Update Scheduled for Friday, March 6th
Dear SubMIT Users,We are planning to update the Slurm workload manager to version 2025.11 across all SubMIT clusters on Friday, March 6th, 2pm. This update does not involve changes to the underlying system configuration or cluster infrastructure.What to Expect: Please contact the SubMIT team if you encounter issues.
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SubMIT Workshop 2026 Wrapped
Our yearly SubMIT workshop took place on Friday, January 23rd. We started with Christoph and David giving an introduction and an overview of the SubMIT system and presented upgrades that have been carried out in the last year, including expanded GPU services, OS upgrades, and new software support, and discussed what will be the Future…
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Recent Changes in Project Team Leadership
It is with mixed emotions that I would like to share with the SubMIT community that I have officially stepped down from my role as SubMIT Project Team co-Deputy Lead in order to pursue other recent advancement opportunities in my career. I will continue to serve the Physics community as a non-leadership member of the…
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Changes in the Project Team – Farewell, Qier and welcome Jan!
The new year begins with the farewell of a valued member of our project team: Zhangqier Wang (Qier), a founding member of SubMIT since 2021. Qier has been an expert in setting up and commissioning machines, configuring networks, and installing, upgrading, and debugging software—among many other contributions. He served as a key contact for job…
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GPU Resources Update at SubMIT
The GPU resources at SubMIT have recently been updated to increase overall capacity and an express queue has been introduced. The changes are described below: Updated from Users’ meeting on October 27Benedikt Maier presented his experience using Submit’s GPU resources to train multimodal jet taggers for the CMS experiment, the slides can be found here.…
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Passing the magical 1000 users mark
According to our records, SubMIT has passed the magical 1000 users mark on September 1, 2025. Users include everybody who has a home directory in SubMIT which includes some service accounts, but as you can see subMIT has a steady trend of new user registrations and has certainly passed the 1000 marks of ‘real’ users…
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SubMIT mass storage is getting fast
On November 18 a new major update of our mass storage system CephFS v20, Tentacle, was released. Only two days later on November 20 SubMIT upgraded to this version. Apart from various bug fixes and new features, Tentacles brings significant performance improvements. SubMIT is using Erasure Coding in a 6+2 scheme. This allows us to…
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LLMs on SubMIT: A2rchi Showcased at User Meeting
On September 16th, the SubMIT team hosted a user group meeting, bringing together representatives from various divisions across MIT physics department. These regular gatherings provide a space for users to exchange experiences, raise questions, and share feedback directly with the SubMIT operations team. A highlight of this meeting was a presentation on A2rchi – An…