Category: News
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Welcome to new team member: Marianne Moore
It is our pleasure to announce that with the Spring 2023 semester coming to an end Marianne Moore joins the subMIT Project. Marianne joins us from the Center for Theoretical Physics (CTP), where she works with Prof. Tracy Slatyer on dark matter.
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Moving subMIT to 100 Gbit/sec all the way
Dave and Paul received the 100 Gbit/sec yellow fibres from IS&T (left with Dave) and our subMIT switch is plugged in using the pink fibre (right with Zhangqier). The switch went smoothly on Tuesday (February 24, 2023). Subsequent testing revealed node-to-node network throughput between Building 24 and Bates of up to 88 Gbit/sec (11 Gbytes/sec),…
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The firehose has arrived in Building 24
Early this week the eagerly awaited 100 Gbit/sec network connection has arrived in Building 24 to be able to connect the on campus resources with the world at the 100 Gbit/sec level. The connection before was at the 10 Gbit/sec level. It turns out that the fibre ends up directly in the main network hub…
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Another Successful Workshop on Basic Computing Services in the Physics Department
Earlier this month, the new year was ushered in by the annual Basic Computing Services in the Physics Department workshop. The subMIT Project Lead, Joshua Bendavid, reflected on the day’s events, “The workshop was a great opportunity to take stock of the current state of the project and user community, provide further resources and education…
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Welcome to our new deputy subMIT project manager: Matthew Heine
Matthew Heine joins the MIT Kavli Institute and will be the deputy manager of the subMIT Project. Matthew comes to us from Boston College with extensive application experience in High Performance Computing from his Ph.D. in condensed matter theory.
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Power circuit work completed
On November 16,2022 from 5:00-8:00am, during the scheduled subMIT downtime, the new power circuit carrying the required 208 V was enabled to provide power to the submit servers that house the gluster storage system. With a higher power supplied the servers are now running under the by the vendor recommended conditions and boot without manual…
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Downtime for subMIT 11/16/2022 — 5:00-9:00am
There will be a scheduled downtime Wednesday morning from approximately 5:00 – 9:00 for power infrastructure improvements. Users should expect interruption of storage access during this time, and open interactive sessions or jobs which are running might fail and need to be resubmitted. The intervention should otherwise be transparent to users.Thanks for your patience and…
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Major investment at the MGHPCC in Holyoke
UMass, Harvard, MIT and others have decided to make a major further investment at Holyoke. Check out this news article from November 10, 2022.
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The new subMIT web site?
WordPress is a very powerful tool to manage web content. We will give it a try for our subMIT Project.