University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute

MSI Walter Library

The University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) in Minneapolis, Minnesota is an interdisciplinary research program that provides hardware and software resources, as well as technical user support, to faculty and researchers at the University of Minnesota and at other institutions of higher education in Minnesota. MSI is located on the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus in Walter Library.

History

MSI Sign

In 1981, the University of Minnesota was the first U.S. University to acquire a supercomputer (a Cray-1). The Supercomputing Institute was created in 1984 to provide high-performance computing resources to the University of Minnesota's research community.

Claudia Neuhauser is Interim Director of the Supercomputing Institute. Professor Neuhauser is also Director of the University of Minnesota Informatics Institute.

MSI currently has three HPC systems available for use by researchers. In February 2015, a fourth system began installation and acceptance testing.

Memberships

Currently MSI is a member of the Minnesota High Tech Association, the Great Lakes Consortium, and XSEDE.

Mission

The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute seeks to provide researchers at the University of Minnesota and at other institutions of higher education in the State of Minnesota access to high-performance computing resources and user support to facilitate successful and cutting-edge research in all disciplines, help researchers attract funding, contribute to undergraduate and graduate education, and benefit the broader community.

MSI is committed to expanding and developing the types of service it offers in order to continue to play its key support role across the growing spectrum of scientific fields.

MSI is also committed to facilitating University-industry collaboration and to promoting technology transfer through the interchange of ideas in the field of supercomputing research, including the dissemination of results of research accomplished with MSI resources.

Supercomputing capabilities

HPC resources

MSI Data center 1

Laboratories

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