Workshop on Basic Computing Services in the Physics Department - subMIT

Thursday Jan 30, 2025, 9:00 AM → 5:00 PM America/New_York

26-414 (Kolker room)

The subMIT computing facility is a login pool that is designed to provide access to the basic research computing resources of the physics department and beyond.

This one day workshop will provide an overview and updates on the status and plans for the system and project, as well as topical presentations on a range of use cases.

Additionally, there will be tutorial sessions.  Bring your laptop to run the examples in real-time or just sit back and listen to the accompanying instructional talk.

More information on the subMIT project as well as user documentation is available at https://submit.mit.edu

The workshop will take place in the Kolker Room (26-414) and a Zoom connection will be available at https://mit.zoom.us/j/96743699673?pwd=b3h2Q3c3cVQwYW12blhMUG5SWXZCZz09

Refreshments will be provided during coffee breaks!

Please note: the details of the schedule of individual talks may change as we work to accommodate new requests for contributions.

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM Introduction/subMIT Project Overview

Speaker: David Walter

9:30 AM → 9:45 AM Getting started on subMIT: Available Resources

• Computational Resources

• Documentation: Users Guide, GitHub Examples

• Support: Help Desk & Chat Bot

Speaker: Mariarosaria D'Alfonso (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

9:45 AM → 10:00 AM Getting started on subMIT: How to Interact with subMIT

• ssh / terminal
• JupyterHub
• X2Go
• Visual Studio Code (Remote Development)
• 1-minute summary of batch jobs (see also later tutorial)

Speaker: Matthew Heine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

10:00 AM → 10:15 AM Getting started on subMIT: Installing, Managing, & Sharing Software (Overview)

Speaker: Xuejian Shen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

10:15 AM → 10:30 AM Coffee Break

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Tutorial: Managing & Installing Software with Conda

Speaker: Marianne Moore (MIT)

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Tutorial: Containers for Portable Software Environments

Speaker: Luca Lavezzo (MIt)

11:30 AM → 12:00 PM Tutorial: Batch Job / Workflow Management: SLURM & HTCondor

This session will show how to use the batch schedulers/resource-managers SLURM & HTCondor to manage your computational tasks, distributing them across the shared resources. Depending on your workflow, this may provide an easy way to run your calculations in parallel, shortening time-to-result and eliminating some manual tasks.

Speaker: Zhangqier Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

12:00 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 3:00 PM User Talks: Session 1

Session of User-Contributed talks

3:00 PM → 3:15 PM Coffee Break

3:15 PM → 4:30 PM User Talks: Session 2

Session of User-Contributed talks

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM Open Discussion & Closing Remarks