diff --git a/.gitlab/gitlab-ci-frontier.yml b/.gitlab/gitlab-ci-frontier.yml
index c69da76..34e7bbf 100644
--- a/.gitlab/gitlab-ci-frontier.yml
+++ b/.gitlab/gitlab-ci-frontier.yml
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ install:frontier-gcc:
     - rsync -av "${SPACK_BUILD_DIR}/spack" "${SPACK_BUILD_COMPUTING_DIR}"
     - rsync -av "${SPACK_USER_CACHE_PATH}/" "${SPACK_USER_CACHE_COMPUTING_PATH}"
     - SPACK_BUILD_DIR="${SPACK_BUILD_COMPUTING_DIR}" SPACK_USER_CACHE_PATH="${SPACK_USER_CACHE_COMPUTING_PATH}" bash scripts/ci/gitlab-ci/run.sh install
+    - rsync -av "${SPACK_USER_CACHE_COMPUTING_PATH}/" "${SPACK_USER_CACHE_PATH}"
   needs:
     - setup:frontier-gcc
   dependencies:
diff --git a/scripts/ci/gitlab-ci/cdash-upload.patch b/scripts/ci/gitlab-ci/cdash-upload.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e48d342
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/ci/gitlab-ci/cdash-upload.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/reporters/cdash.py b/lib/spack/spack/reporters/cdash.py
+index cd3ac31a37..c9ae4949fa 100644
+--- a/lib/spack/spack/reporters/cdash.py
++++ b/lib/spack/spack/reporters/cdash.py
+@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ def build_report(self, report_dir, specs):
+         # Generate reports for each package in each spec.
+         for spec in specs:
+             duration = 0
+-            if "time" in spec:
++            if "time" in spec and spec["time"]:
+                 duration = int(spec["time"])
+             for package in spec["packages"]:
+                 self.build_report_for_package(report_dir, package, duration)
+@@ -432,6 +432,9 @@ def upload(self, filename):
+             print("Cannot upload {0} due to missing upload url".format(filename))
+             return
+ 
++        if self.cdash_upload_url == "skip_upload":
++            return
++
+         # Compute md5 checksum for the contents of this file.
+         md5sum = checksum(hashlib.md5, filename, block_size=8192)
+ 
diff --git a/scripts/ci/gitlab-ci/run.sh b/scripts/ci/gitlab-ci/run.sh
index 386fb04..d11b157 100755
--- a/scripts/ci/gitlab-ci/run.sh
+++ b/scripts/ci/gitlab-ci/run.sh
@@ -48,6 +48,12 @@ case ${STEP} in
     echo "**********Setup Begin**********"
     git clone -c feature.manyFiles=true https://github.com/spack/spack.git "${SPACK_BUILD_DIR}/spack"
 
+    # Apply patch to be able to skip the cdash upload during spack install
+    patch="$(pwd)/scripts/ci/gitlab-ci/cdash-upload.patch"
+    cd "${SPACK_BUILD_DIR}/spack"
+    git apply "$patch"
+    cd -
+
     # Clone spack-packages
     mkdir -p "${SPACK_BUILD_DIR}/spack-packages"
     cd "${SPACK_BUILD_DIR}/spack-packages"
@@ -103,7 +109,13 @@ case ${STEP} in
     spack config blame
 
     # Install the environment with timing and parallel jobs
-    spack -t install "-j$((NUM_CORES*2))" --show-log-on-error --no-check-signature --fail-fast | tee spack_log.out 2>&1
+    spack -t install \
+      "-j$((NUM_CORES*2))" \
+      --show-log-on-error \
+      --no-check-signature \
+      --fail-fast \
+      "--cdash-upload-url=skip_upload" \
+      | tee spack_log.out 2>&1
 
     # Show what was installed
     spack find -lv
@@ -112,8 +124,9 @@ case ${STEP} in
 
   submit)
     echo "**********Submit Begin**********"
-    # Placeholder for submission to CDash or other reporting systems
-    echo "Submit step - currently a placeholder"
+
+    find "${SPACK_USER_CACHE_PATH}"/reports -type f -exec curl -T {} "https://open.cdash.org/submit.php?project=TOOLS-SDK" ';'
+
     echo "**********Submit End**********"
     ;;