2025 Midwest RCD Annual Meeting

This session will be an open discussion format to get an overview of Globus Compute and for attendees to share their experiences or ask questions. The goal of this session is to give attendees an opportunity to learn more about Globus Compute and how they may support it in their respective environments. Of particular interest is the differences between Single-User and Multi-User. It is hoped that the pros and cons can be discussed.

Agenda:
- Globus team to present overview of Globus Compute (slides PPT):
Lee Liming

- Call on some attendees to share their experiences
Geoffrey Lentner Purdue
Todd Raeker University of Michigan

- Attendee questions and discuss.

A discussion of why the Institute for Cyber Enabled Research (ICER) at Michigan State University transitioned the installed High Performance Computing Cluster of over 1,000 hardware nodes from CentOS 7.9 to Ubuntu 22.04 and the operating system upgrade process. Specific items covered include constraints, challenges, operating system evaluation, software deployment, and the process used to transition over 2500 active users to using the new operating system for research computing.

Overview of ICICLE Project (5 minutes)
Beth Plale, Co-Principal Investigator, ICICLE Project

Presentation of ICICLE Products/Resources (5 minutes/per presentation)

• Patra Model Cards/CI Knowledge Network        

Sachith Withana, Indiana University 

• Performance Prediction Model for LLMs on GPUs

Biyao Zhang, Case Western Reserve University

• Smart Scheduler

Swathi Manikya Vallabhajosyula, Ohio State University

• Labeling Copilot - An Auto-labeling Tool

Debargha Ganguly, Case Western Reserve University


Panel : ICICLE Engages the MWRCD Community (25 minutes)
Karen Tomko, Ohio State University, Moderator

Panelists:
Beth Plale, Indiana University
Preston Smith, Purdue University
Jane Combs, University of Cincinnati

Are researchers at your university talking about CMMC? Are you involved in planning-for or providing secure compute services and platforms for CMMC? Do you have a story to share about building a CMMC environment? Our discussion will cover:

1. A brief overview of CMMC and different levels of assessment)
2. How we understand and involve researchers in meeting their needs, in building a secure environment.
3. Discuss potential solutions (cloud, on-prem), and the associated assessments needed.
4. Stories from universities who may have such an environment now; how they built it, how they funded it, how they operate it sustainably