The Infrastructure Group
The Infrastructure Group (TIG) provides service-oriented computing, communications and operations assistance to support the world-class research underway at CSAIL. On the technical side, TIG handles everything from maintaining and monitoring a complex computing infrastructure 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to ensuring lab members can access cutting-edge computing services and in-person support. TIG maintains the lab’s four on-premises data centers as well as hosting in off-premises facilities. Additionally, TIG actively promotes CSAIL research to the broader MIT community, reputable news organizations and the general public via a full-range of media relations and communications services.
On Wednesday, January 29, between 5 and 7 p.m., CSAIL account creation, renewal, and password changes will be disabled for a server migration. Account updates other than for passwords will be queued and performed after the outage; attempted password changes will display an error.
The network maintenance event is scheduled for January 27–28 in the Holyoke data center has been completed successfully. Additional outages for specific network users will be scheduled soon.
On December 5th the login.csail.mit.edu has been reinstalled with new a instance lifeday
running Ubuntu 24.04
Please use login.csail.mit.edu as the name to access this service so
you always go to the current production host.
The new host has SSH fingerprints in DNS so you can verify these keys with:
ssh -o "VerifyHostKeyDNS ask" login.csail.mit.edu
You may need to clear the old keys first with:
ssh-keygen -R login.csail.mit.edu
Or you can manually confirm the new keys:
1024 SHA256:1EcyPPJOJcVtTUSQMIkAOE+XH67QAYaiwm3iGTq8sUk (DSA)
256 SHA256:qdNz6ooHqgdnEML3YDxGac9IeKLqDW+ZNQkI9ebK12g (ECDSA)
256 SHA256:779qVsmjtEXpQzuzanikhW07RMZ3XCacKI5GN5Vgfao (ED25519)
3072 SHA256:MInb/7kn41JcwF2tXVhQbd1ojT2OUtxI5xTU9+gu1GM (RSA)
On April 30th, 2025, TIG’s support for CSAIL Ubuntu 20.04 will end. Please see https://tig.csail.mit.edu/operating-systems/csail-linux/linux-install/#installation-new-or-old-host for reinstallation instructions. Contact help@csail.mit.edu with any questions.
Support
TIG is generally available Mon - Fri, 9 AM - 6 PM US/Eastern Time following the recognized Institute Holidays and Special Holiday calendar.
If you would like to open a support case regarding Computing or Facilities related issues, sending an email to the address below will create a trouble tracking ticket in which we will promptly respond to.
E-mail: help@csail.mit.edu
Walk-in
We are located on the second floor of the Stata Center, in 32-270.
TIG is physically on site Mon - Fri, 9 AM - 5 PM US/Eastern Time. If the doors are closed, there is a doorbell at the handle to the doors. Just give us a ring and we’ll be happy to see you and assist if we are available.
Phone
Creating a ticket via e-mail to help@csail.mit.edu is always preferred, but you can also reach us by phone.
We are available Mon - Fri, 9 AM - 6 PM US/Eastern Time. If we are unavailable or it’s during off business hours, we recommend sending mail to help@csail.mit.edu. You can also leave a voice mail.
TIG Hotline: 617-253-8304
To request an emergency repair or report an emergency that endangers MIT property, call:
MIT Factilites 617-253-4948