Harvard IT Summit 6 June 2024

9am CIOC Discussion

  • Participants: Stu, Emily, Beth, Meena, Dan Hawkins
    • career starts, joining Harvard
    • strategic alignment with rest of Harvard
    • has to be a good rationale for doing something different than Harvard enterprise
      • customer-centric
    • HUIT
      • services everyone needs but don’t need to focus on locally
      • CIOC good at collaboration and taking Harvard perspective
    • Teachly as case study in CIOC collaboration
    • what are some of the powerful outside forces affecting your work
      • can’t say AI or infosec
    • some poking at HBS by both Meena and Emily!
    • Meena participates in CIO advisory committee
      • learning and giving back

FASRC and IQSS

  • emphasis of the collaboration:
    • FASRC on scalable backend infrastructure, researcher support for physical sicentists
    • IQSS on developing front-end software, support for social scientists
  • Projects:
    • SID
    • OpenOnDemand
    • Dataverse
    • CGA
    • OpenDP
  • FASRC Infrastructure Overview by Raminder
    • Service Catalog
      • access and auth
      • cluster computing
      • data storage
      • data mgmt
      • data science and research facilitation
      • software
      • hosted machine
      • virtual machine
    • Cannon cluster
      • 93800 CPU
      • 1530 comput nodes
      • 653 TB ram
      • 585 a100 gpu nodes
      • 107 v100 gpu nodes
      • more from Kempner
      • 20.1 petaflops
      • 60+ PB storage
      • 50m jobs
      • 400 million cpu hours
      • 800+ lab groups
  • Migration of Social Scientist Researchers by Sarah Duncan
    • migration from IQSS’ RC cluster ‘RCE”
    • on the RCE before migration: 450 users, 550 projects
    • on FASRC now: 646 users, 40 PI groups, 40 level 3 groups
    • migration took 4 years
    • lots of spreadsheets
    • video recordings for UX improvements
  • Shared Operations and Support
    • access
      • challenges: traditional FASRC users had existing MoU’s with FASRC, did not include IQSS
    • auth privileges
    • collaboration
      • do we join departments?
      • do we lean into one harvard policy wise?
      • forming Voltron
        • formalized relationship as two sides of the same coin and make users aware
    • admin privileges
      • admin lite: for IQSS privileges
      • shared ticketing
      • KISS
      • ownership
    • Future Projects
      • more product mgmt for Sid and IT Ops Road map
      • Open OnDemand features
        • expand custom profiles
        • tie profiles to group permissions
        • system info for users (XDMOD)
        • dataverse integration discovery
        • AI integration discovery
          • RT workflows
          • tuning job submission parameters
        • continued collaboration on evolving job composers
        • Help Ohio super comuter center group the OOD community