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Welcome Alex to the SubMIT team!
We are excited to welcome Alexander (Alex) Avdoshkin to the subMIT team as of August 2025. Alex is a postdoctoral researcher in the Condensed Matter Theory (CMT) group at MIT and brings a strong background in theoretical physics, with a focus on quantum materials, application artificial intelligence to scientific research, and high-performance computing. Alex completed…
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Notice: Slurm upgrades
The Slurm system is undergoing several upgrades that have been planned over the last couple of weeks, and will streamline its current functionalities and add new features. The changes will be applied on Tuesday, June 10th, at 2pm. You should not experience any disruptions to your running jobs, but the Slurm commands and monitoring may…
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Warm Welcomes and Fond Farewells Among SubMIT User Group Representatives
The SubMIT organization is undergoing exciting transitions as several of our User Group Representatives move on to new career opportunities at MIT and beyond. New members step in with fresh energy and perspectives. User Representatives play a crucial role in SubMIT, acting as a bridge between the researchers who use the platform and the Project…
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Annual SubMIT review
On May 22, SubMIT had its annual review where the project team presented to the steering committee a summary of the cluster’s performance and recent upgrades. SubMIT started on December 9, 2021 and has now grown to 975 users, with consistently 50-80 weekly active users. From its inception, SubMIT’s goal has been to allow Physics…
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Introducing Globus on SubMIT
We are excited to announce that Globus data transfer services are now available on SubMIT. Globus provides a fast, secure, and user-friendly way to transfer large datasets between SubMIT, personal devices, and external clusters. Anyone with an MIT credential can now log in to Globus and access the endpoint we installed on SubMIT. Users can…
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Help Us Highlight SubMIT-Enabled Research
The SubMIT analysis facility was built to empower cutting-edge research in the Physics Department—and now we want to showcase the results! We’re compiling a collection of publications that made use of SubMIT for data analysis or computing workflows. If your work used SubMIT in any way, we’d love to feature it on our publication list…
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System Maintenance Completed
On Thursday afternoon, April 17, we performed scheduled system maintenance to apply a series of important upgrades. This required temporarily taking parts of the system offline—but it was worth it! Here’s what’s new: Please let us know if you encounter any issues or have questions. Thanks again for your understanding during the downtime!
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How to scale your workflow on SubMIT
A special SubMIT Users Meeting will take place Tuesday, April 22 at 10am in the Marlar Lounge (37-252) + Zoom. Note the different location. This time we will focus on how to scale your workflow to external resources using batch computing. After some quick news, we will discuss the necessary background to get started and…
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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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