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

Basic Computing Services (subMIT) Review

Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 1:00 PM

Monday, May 19, 2025
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Thursday, May 22, 2025
1:00 PM Opening Remarks from the Steering Committee - Christoph Paus (MIT)
Opening Remarks from the Steering Committee
- Christoph Paus (MIT)
1:00 PM - 1:10 PM
Room: Building 24-506
1:10 PM Overview: The purpose and impact of SubMIT - David Walter
Overview: The purpose and impact of SubMIT
- David Walter
1:10 PM - 1:25 PM
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, …
1:25 PM User Workflows on SubMIT - Luca Lavezzo (MIt)
User Workflows on SubMIT
- Luca Lavezzo (MIt)
1:25 PM - 1:40 PM
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
1:40 PM Hardware resources and performance - Mariarosaria D'Alfonso (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Hardware resources and performance
- Mariarosaria D'Alfonso (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
1:40 PM - 1:55 PM
Room: Building 24-506 - Hardware resources, compute, network, ... - status, capacity, usage, ... - What resources make SubMIT attractive - Benchmarking of the system, analysis challenge
1:55 PM Break
Break
1:55 PM - 2:05 PM
Room: Building 24-506
2:05 PM Previous and future upgrades - Zhangqier Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Previous and future upgrades
- Zhangqier Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2:05 PM - 2:20 PM
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)
2:20 PM How SubMIT provides user support - Marianne Moore (MIT)
How SubMIT provides user support
- Marianne Moore (MIT)
2:20 PM - 2:35 PM
Room: Building 24-506 - Communication channels: Stack, email, … - Chatbot - User's guide - Emails to tickets analysis - How the community evolves/grows
2:35 PM Engagement with the user community - Matthew Heine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Engagement with the user community
- Matthew Heine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2:35 PM - 2:50 PM
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
2:50 PM Discussion & feedback
Discussion & feedback
2:50 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Building 24-506