Category: Project Team
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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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Join Us for the Annual subMIT Workshop
We’re excited to invite you to our annual one-day Workshop on Basic Computing Services in the Physics Department (subMIT) on Thursday, January 30, 2025. The workshop will run from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM in the Kolker Room (26-414), with a hybrid option available via Zoom. The morning session begins with an overview of the…
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Changes at the helm
We would like to announce a change of leadership of the subMIT project team. David Walter is in charge of the subMIT project team starting from January 1, 2025. David started his appointment with the PPC group on December 1, 2024 and had about a month to take over from Josh. David hails from Germany,…
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Passed the 900 user mark
Today the subMIT system has passed the 900 registered user mark. The number of registered users follows a peculiar pattern. When subMIT supports large classes there is a major jump of students registering during the beginning of the semester, while otherwise the number of registered users creeps up at a shallow but rather constant slope.…
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SubMIT Team Revamps Storage: From Gluster to Ceph
The SubMIT project team has recently undertaken a significant project by migrating from a Gluster-based to a Ceph-based file system. This move marks a critical step in ensuring that the SubMIt system can handle the increasing demands of research and data processing in the coming years. Previously, the system had data from over 800 SubMIT…
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Finally – subMIT moved
After getting 100 Gbit fiber and consolidating subMIT’s hardware last year into building 24 for optimal access by the project team and giving it more reliable power supply, we were planning to move the facility one last time to the big and even better supported computing room in Building 24, just about 20 meter from…
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Second Annual Review of subMIT
On Friday June 21, 2024, we held our second annual review of the subMIT project. We are grateful to the Basic Computing Service Steering Committee for their hard work and their insightful comments and questions in reviewing the project. The subMIT project has come along way since its inception in the Summer of 2021 and…
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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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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…