Category: News
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Report from the Annual subMIT Workshop
Thank you to all who made our most recent annual subMIT workshop a success! The workshop closed IAP out in style with user contributions from across the Physics Department. In fact, in the series of subMIT workshops over the last years we note a steady increase in involvement, which has lead to a reduction of…
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Workshop on Basic Computing Services in the Physics Department
It’s once again time for the annual one-day Workshop on Basic Computing Services in the Physics Department (subMIT). The workshop will take place on Friday Feb 2, 2024, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM in the Kolker room (24-414) and Zoom. The agenda for the workshop can be found here, including the Zoom link. It will…
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Welcome to new team member: Xuejian (Jacob) Shen
It is our pleasure to announce that with the Fall 2023 semester starting and Josh Burrow moving on to greener pastures Xuejian Shen called Jacob joins the subMIT Project. Jacob joins us from the MIT Kavli Institute (MKI), where he works with Prof. Mark Vogelsberger on simulations of the universe. Jacob received his PhD at…
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CERN makes the leap to Exabyte disk storage
While our Tier-2 centers in the US are still sitting at some ten Petabyte disk storage, and our subMIT system at just barely 457 TB storage, CERN has broken into the Exabyte disk storage category, and they have done so using the CERN EOS file system. While it is unlikely we are going anywhere near…
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A2rchi in the MIT News
With our proposal to the College of Computing accepted, funded by Drew Hoston (MIT’05) and Dropbox, we are excited to share that we have been highlighted in a recent MIT news post and hope to meet with our generous ‘funder’ later in the Fall to talk about our plans and the future of A2rchi. Stay…
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Relocation of subMIT to Building 24 completed
The subMIT hardware was originally planned to be installed at Bates laboratory, in Middleton a 40 minutes car ride from the main MIT campus. Bates is home to the High Performance Research Computing Facility (HPRCF). SubMIT moved to the HPRCF mostly because of its strong network connection to CERN. With an extension of the data…
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A2rchi workflow disclosed
Today A2rchi (AI Augmented Research Chat Intelligence ) our ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (pronouns: she/her) will be joining the subMIT project team. A2rchi will help us with all emails coming to submit-help@mit.edu. Emails will not be replied to via email anymore but will be entirely processed in our project management tool Cleo (a redmine installation). Here is…
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Welcome A2rchi, our special new team member
Today we have a special new team member joined our subMIT project team. First name Artificial and last name Intelligence is referred to as A2rchi (pronouns: she/her) and will start to take your questions here. She has been trained on the full subMIT users guide, technical design details and specific software which is commonly used…
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Milestone in number of users: 300
According to our monitoring tools we have just reached 300 users on submit this morning, Tuesday June 20, 2023 at 9:45am. We would like to say ‘thank you’ to all 300 users that have made themselves an account and are using the resources provided by the physics department. We are looking forward to adding 300…
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Totally Zen – Zen4c
On June 13, 2023, two days ago, AMD launched the EPYC Bergamo, 128 cores per socket and thus 1024 threads per 1U as a new record in high density ‘CPU’ computing. This is particularly important for non-GPU applications as it increases the amount of computing one can pull out of a given rack space. The…