Name: Basic Computing Services (subMIT) Review
Start: 2025-05-22T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-05-22T15:35:00-04:00
Location: MIT

- 13:00 → 13:10
  
  Opening Remarks from the Steering Committee 10m
  
  Speaker: Christoph Paus (MIT)
- 13:10 → 13:20
  Overview: The purpose and impact of SubMIT 10m
  - What is the problem we are trying to solve
  - System usage: total and weekly users, by department etc. …
  - Web page, Paper on SubMIT, Publications with SubMIT, …
  Speaker: David Walter
- 13:20 → 13:30
  User Workflows on SubMIT 10m
  - Account creation and login
  - Access through JupyterHub or terminal
  - Conda, Containers, singularity
  - Batch computing using slurm, htcondor
  - External resources and how to access them
  Speaker: Luca Lavezzo (MIt)
- 13:30 → 13:40
  Hardware resources and performance 10m
  - Hardware resources, compute, network, ...
  - status, capacity, usage, ...
  - What resources make SubMIT attractive
  - Benchmarking of the system, analysis challenge
  Speaker: Mariarosaria D'Alfonso (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 13:40 → 13:50
  User support 10m
  - Communication channels: Stack, email, …
  - Chatbot
  - User's guide
  - Emails to tickets analysis
  Speaker: Marianne Moore (MIT)
- 13:50 → 14:00
  
  Break 10m
- 14:00 → 14:10
  Engagement with the user community 10m
  - SubMIT workshop, tutorials, user meetings
  - Classroom usage, workshops hold at MIT using SubMIT resources
  - How the community evolves/grows
  Speaker: Matthew Heine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 14:10 → 14:20
  Customization and user requests 10m
  - Specific user requests:
  - OpenMPI, Mathematica, Globus
  - Groups: priority access on purchased hardware, storages, webpage
  - Dropbox like storage? We didn’t follow up on that
  - Current limitations and open challenges
  - Balancing restrictions/rules with fair share usage
  Speaker: Xuejian(Jacob) Shen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 14:20 → 14:30
  Stable long term operations & outlook 10m
  - What did we learn the last year(s)
  - Software upgrades policy
  - The future of SubMIT
  - Control groups (partially done): Limit abuse of the system, include CephFS machines in Slurm pool, …
  - Take control over LDAP server (This will allow us to…)
  - Removal of old data (/ceph)
  Speaker: Zhangqier Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 14:30 → 14:40
  
  Discussion & feedback 10m