Basic Computing Services (subMIT) Review

America/New_York
Building 24-506 (MIT)

Building 24-506

MIT

    • 1
      Opening Remarks from the Steering Committee
      Speaker: Christoph Paus (MIT)
    • 2
      Overview: The purpose and impact of SubMIT
      • 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, …
      Speaker: David Walter
    • 3
      User Workflows on SubMIT
      • 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)
    • 4
      Hardware resources and performance
      • 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)
    • 13:55
      Break
    • 5
      Previous and future upgrades
      • 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)
    • 6
      How SubMIT provides user support
      • Communication channels: Stack, email, …
      • Chatbot
      • User's guide
      • Emails to tickets analysis
      • How the community evolves/grows
      Speaker: Marianne Moore (MIT)
    • 7
      Engagement with the user community
      • 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
      Speaker: Matthew Heine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
    • 8
      Discussion & feedback