Name: Workshop on Basic Computing Services in the Physics Department - subMIT
Start: 2025-01-30T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-30T17:00:00-05:00
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Workshop on Basic Computing Services in the Physics Department - subMIT

Thursday, 30 January 2025 - 09:00

Monday, 27 January 2025
Tuesday, 28 January 2025
Wednesday, 29 January 2025
Thursday, 30 January 2025
09:00 Introduction to the workshop - Christoph Paus (MIT)
Introduction to the workshop
- Christoph Paus (MIT)
09:00 - 09:05
Room: 26-414 (Kolker room)
09:05 subMIT Project Overview - David Walter
subMIT Project Overview
- David Walter
09:05 - 09:30
Room: 26-414 (Kolker room)
09:30 Getting started on subMIT: Available Resources - Mariarosaria D'Alfonso (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Getting started on subMIT: Available Resources
- Mariarosaria D'Alfonso (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
09:30 - 09:45
Room: 26-414 (Kolker room) * Computational Resources * Documentation: Users Guide, GitHub Examples * Support: Help Desk & Chat Bot
09:45 Getting started on subMIT: How to Interact with subMIT - Matthew Heine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Getting started on subMIT: How to Interact with subMIT
- Matthew Heine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
09:45 - 10:00
Room: 26-414 (Kolker room) * ssh / terminal * JupyterHub * X2Go * Visual Studio Code (Remote Development) * 1-minute summary of batch jobs (see also later tutorial)
10:00 Getting started on subMIT: Installing, Managing, & Sharing Software (Overview) - Xuejian Shen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Getting started on subMIT: Installing, Managing, & Sharing Software (Overview)
- Xuejian Shen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
10:00 - 10:15
Room: 26-414 (Kolker room)
10:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 - 10:30
Room: 26-414 (Kolker room)
10:30 Tutorial: Managing & Installing Software with Conda - Marianne Moore (MIT)
Tutorial: Managing & Installing Software with Conda
- Marianne Moore (MIT)
10:30 - 11:00
Room: 26-414 (Kolker room)
11:00 Tutorial: Containers for Portable Software Environments - Luca Lavezzo (MIt)
Tutorial: Containers for Portable Software Environments
- Luca Lavezzo (MIt)
11:00 - 11:30
Room: 26-414 (Kolker room)
11:30 Tutorial: Batch Job / Workflow Management: SLURM & HTCondor - Zhangqier Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Tutorial: Batch Job / Workflow Management: SLURM & HTCondor
- Zhangqier Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
11:30 - 12:00
Room: 26-414 (Kolker room) 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.
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30

13:30 User Talks: Session 1
User Talks: Session 1
13:30 - 15:00
Room: 26-414 (Kolker room) Session of User-Contributed talks

15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:15
Room: 26-414 (Kolker room)

15:15 User Talks: Session 2
User Talks: Session 2
15:15 - 16:30
Room: 26-414 (Kolker room) Session of User-Contributed talks

16:30 Open Discussion & Closing Remarks
Open Discussion & Closing Remarks
16:30 - 17:00
Room: 26-414 (Kolker room)