Name: Basic Computing Services (subMIT) Review
Start: 2026-06-03T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-06-03T16:35:00-04:00
Location: MIT

Basic Computing Services (subMIT) Review

Wednesday, 3 June 2026 - 14:00

Monday, 1 June 2026
Tuesday, 2 June 2026
Wednesday, 3 June 2026
14:00 Opening Remarks from the Steering Committee - Christoph Paus (MIT)
Opening Remarks from the Steering Committee
- Christoph Paus (MIT)
14:00 - 14:10
Room: Building 24-506
14:10 The purpose and impact of SubMIT - David Walter (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The purpose and impact of SubMIT
- David Walter (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
14:10 - 14:25
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, …
14:25 User Workflows on SubMIT - Jan Eysermans (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
User Workflows on SubMIT
- Jan Eysermans (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
14:25 - 14:40
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
14:40 Previous and future upgrades - Mariarosaria D'Alfonso (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Previous and future upgrades
- Mariarosaria D'Alfonso (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
14:40 - 14:55
Room: Building 24-506 - What did we learn the last year(s) - What do we want to do in the future
14:55 Break
Break
14:55 - 15:05
Room: Building 24-506
15:05 Hardware resources and performance - Alexander Avdoshkin (MIT)
Hardware resources and performance
- Alexander Avdoshkin (MIT)
15:05 - 15:20
Room: Building 24-506 - Hardware resources, compute, network, GPUs, ... - status, capacity, usage, ... - What resources make SubMIT attractive - Benchmarking of the system, analysis challenge
15:20 How SubMIT provides user support - Xuejian(Jacob) Shen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
How SubMIT provides user support
- Xuejian(Jacob) Shen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
15:20 - 15:35
Room: Building 24-506 - Communication channels: Stack, email, … - Chatbot - User's guide - Emails to tickets analysis - How the community evolves/grows
15:35 Engagement with the user community - Matthew Heine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Engagement with the user community
- Matthew Heine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
15:35 - 15:50
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
15:50 Discussion & feedback
Discussion & feedback
15:50 - 16:00
Room: Building 24-506