User’s Guide - subMIT

Contents:

• Introduction and creating an account
• Getting started
• Access to SubMIT
• Best practices
• Available software
• Batch computing
• User quota and storage at SubMIT
• Monitoring at SubMIT
• GPU resources
• Data backup
• Conda and its benefits beyond python
• OpenMPI on SubMIT
• Using Globus on SubMIT
• Acknowledging SubMIT

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Tutorials and Examples

Tutorials:

• Tutorial 0: Introduction to the UNIX terminal
• Tutorial 1: Common software packages (python, Julia, MATLAB)
• Tutorial 2: Batch Job (HTCondor and Slurm)
• Tutorial 3: Containers (Podman and Singularity)
• Tutorial 4: Source Control (Git/Github) with Visual Studio Code (VSCode)
• Tutorial 5: Debugging Fortran code with Visual Studio Code (VSCode)
• Tutorial 6: Introduction to Pytorch Lightning
• Tutorial 7: Introduction to Snakemake

Examples of scripts can be found on our submit-examples GitHub repository.

Videos

• Fast Code / File Navigation in VSCode

• Debugging on SubMIT with VSCode

• We have recorded sessions from our 2026 workshop on the different methods to access and interact with SubMIT, as well as how to use containers (Docker and Podman), OpenMPI, Globus, Conda, Snakemake, Slurm, and HTCondor with SubMIT.

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  • Slurm (6)
  • VSCode (4)

Contributing

You can participate in the subMIT project by submitting bugs and feature requests to submit-help@mit.edu. If you see anything missing on our User’s Guide, you can make pull requests on our Github for anything from typos to additional documentation!

Archive - subMIT

Previous Upgrades:

• Move to AlmaLinux