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, 22 May 2025 - 13:00

Monday, 19 May 2025
Tuesday, 20 May 2025
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
Thursday, 22 May 2025
13:00 Opening Remarks from the Steering Committee - Christoph Paus (MIT)
Opening Remarks from the Steering Committee
- Christoph Paus (MIT)
13:00 - 13:10
13:10 Overview: The purpose and impact of SubMIT - David Walter
Overview: The purpose and impact of SubMIT
- David Walter
13:10 - 13:20
- 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, …
13:20 User Workflows on SubMIT - Luca Lavezzo (MIt)
User Workflows on SubMIT
- Luca Lavezzo (MIt)
13:20 - 13:30
- Account creation and login - Access through JupyterHub or terminal - Conda, Containers, singularity - Batch computing using slurm, htcondor - External resources and how to access them
13:30 Hardware resources and performance - Mariarosaria D'Alfonso (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Hardware resources and performance
- Mariarosaria D'Alfonso (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
13:30 - 13:40
- Hardware resources, compute, network, ... - status, capacity, usage, ... - What resources make SubMIT attractive - Benchmarking of the system, analysis challenge
13:40 User support - Marianne Moore (MIT)
User support
- Marianne Moore (MIT)
13:40 - 13:50
- Communication channels: Stack, email, … - Chatbot - User's guide - Emails to tickets analysis
13:50 Break
Break
13:50 - 14:00
14:00 Engagement with the user community - Matthew Heine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Engagement with the user community
- Matthew Heine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
14:00 - 14:10
- SubMIT workshop, tutorials, user meetings - Classroom usage, workshops hold at MIT using SubMIT resources - How the community evolves/grows
14:10 Customization and user requests - Xuejian(Jacob) Shen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Customization and user requests
- Xuejian(Jacob) Shen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
14:10 - 14:20
- 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
14:20 Stable long term operations & outlook - Zhangqier Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Stable long term operations & outlook
- Zhangqier Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
14:20 - 14:30
- 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)
14:30 Discussion & feedback
Discussion & feedback
14:30 - 14:40