SubMIT Users Meeting - operated by Physics Basic Computing Services

Tuesday 16 Sep 2025, 10:00 → 11:00 America/New_York

Kolker Room (26-414) (MIT)

The SubMIT analysis facility is for anyone in the Physics Department and is a set of servers that provide interactive access to substantial storage at high speeds, enabling sophisticated data analyses with very fast turnaround times. Additionally, it seamlessly integrates massive processing resources for large-scale tasks by connecting to a set of powerful batch processing systems.

More information about SubMIT: https://submit.mit.edu/

Zoom Link:  https://mit.zoom.us/j/95199329363

10:00 → 10:05 Refreshments

10:05 → 10:20 SubMIT Overview & News

Speaker: Matthew Heine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

UserMeeting_2025_09_16.pdf

10:20 → 10:30 User Group Representatives Roundtable & Open Discussion

Speakers: Amer Al-Hiyasat (MIT), Hans Moritz Guenther (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jordan Lang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jose Miguel Munoz Arias (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Josu Aurrekoetxea (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Luke Kim (student@mit.edu)

10:30 → 10:50 A2rchi – An Open Source LLM Framework

A2rchi (AI Augmented Research Chat Intelligence) is an open source, end-to-end framework to quickly build an AI support agent for classes and research resources developed jointly by faculty and students in MIT’s physics and computer science departments. It has already been successfully deployed for SubMIT, the private cloud at MIT’s Physic Department, and for the 8.01 and 8.511 courses. A2rchi allows students to quickly find help on how to use the SubMIT infrastructure or helps TAs to answer questions on Piazza. These test deployments demonstrated that A2rchi can significantly reduce the load on TAs, Lecturers, and support staff. In contrast, to other GenAI chat support solutions, A2rchi is fully open-source, works with different foundational models, and most importantly is integrated with Piazza and Redmine, a widely used open-source flexible project management web application including a ticketing system. (see: ppc.mit.edu/a2/)

Speakers: Ivan Paus, Luca Lavezzo (MIT), Pietro Lugato (student@mit.edu)

ivan_submit_a2rchi.pdf

10:50 → 11:00 Followup Discussion