Month: March 2025
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Unexpected SubMIT Outage During MIT Network Maintenance
On Saturday, March 22, the SubMIT computing analysis facility experienced an unexpected six-hour outage, between 1pm and 7pm, due to a building-wide network failure. The disruption was traced to a scheduled MIT router upgrade, during which the intended failover to a secondary router did not occur as expected. As a result, SubMIT was rendered inaccessible…
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User feedback and policy updates
How to work on SubMIT? Given that SubMIT is a community installation and users can affect each others work we have sat down to formulate a few pointers for users, what to pay attention to etc. ‘Using SubMIT’ gives you a short summary of what we expect from users, so we can all work together…
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Highlights from the Users Meeting
The subMIT team recently held its monthly users meeting in February and March with very interesting updates from both postdoctoral fellows and the project team. Solving Einstein’s equations on subMIT Josu Aurrekoetxea, a postdoctoral research fellow specialized in cosmological simulations, talked in February about numerical relativity. Coding Einstein’s equations requires adaptive mesh refinement due to…