Opening Remarks from the Steering Committee

• Christoph Paus (MIT)

Room: Building 24-506

Overview: The purpose and impact of SubMIT

• David Walter

Room: Building 24-506 - What is the problem we are trying to solve - System usage: total and weekly users, by department etc. … - Public presence: Web page, Paper on SubMIT, Publications with SubMIT, …

User Workflows on SubMIT

• Luca Lavezzo (MIt)

Room: Building 24-506 - Account creation and login - Access through JupyterHub or terminal - Conda, Containers, singularity - Batch computing using slurm, htcondor - External resources and how to access them

Hardware resources and performance

• Mariarosaria D'Alfonso (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Room: Building 24-506 - Hardware resources, compute, network, ... - status, capacity, usage, ... - What resources make SubMIT attractive - Benchmarking of the system, analysis challenge

Previous and future upgrades

• Zhangqier Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Room: Building 24-506 - 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)

How SubMIT provides user support

• Marianne Moore (MIT)

Room: Building 24-506 - Communication channels: Stack, email, … - Chatbot - User's guide - Emails to tickets analysis - How the community evolves/grows

Engagement with the user community

• Matthew Heine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Room: Building 24-506 - SubMIT workshop, tutorials, user meetings - Classroom usage, workshops hold at MIT using SubMIT resources - Customization and 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

Discussion & feedback Room: Building 24-506