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

History

In 1981, the University of Minnesota became the first U.S. university to acquire a supercomputer, a Cray-1. The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute was created in 1984 to provide high-performance computing resources to the University of Minnesota's research community. MSI currently has one HPC cluster, Agate, available for use.

MSI is part of Research Computing in the Research and Innovation Office. Research Computing is an umbrella organization that comprises the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, U-Spatial, the Data Science Initiative, and the International Institute for Biosensing.

Memberships

MSI is a member of the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation, the Minnesota High Tech Association, the Great Lakes Consortium, and the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE).

Supercomputing capabilities

HPC resources

Agate - HPE cluster with HPE and AMD CPU nodes and NVidia GPU nodes

References

Moore, Rick. "Blade Runner : UMNews." University of Minnesota. Web. 29 July 2010. http://www1.umn.edu/news/features/2009/UR_CONTENT_148391.html
Vance, Ashlee. "Minnesota’s Enormous Apples Computer - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com." Technology - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com. Web. 29 July 2010. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/minnesotas-enormous-apples-computer/?smid=pl-share

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 [[File:MSI Walter Library.jpg|thumb|MSI Walter Library]]
-The '''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.
+The '''Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI)''' in [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]] is a core research facility of the [[University of Minnesota]] that provides hardware and software resources, as well as technical user support, to faculty and researchers at the university and at other institutions of higher education in Minnesota. MSI is located in [[Walter Library]], on the university's [[Twin Cities]] campus.
 == History ==
 [[File:MSI Sign.jpg|thumb|MSI Sign]]
-In 1981, the University of Minnesota was the first U.S. University to acquire a [[supercomputer]] (a [[Cray-1]]). The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute was created in 1984 to provide high-performance computing resources to the University of Minnesota's research community.
+In 1981, the University of Minnesota became the first U.S. university to acquire a [[supercomputer]], a [[Cray-1]]. The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute was created in 1984 to provide high-performance computing resources to the University of Minnesota's research community. MSI currently has one HPC cluster, Agate, available for use.
-Claudia Neuhauser is the Director of Research Computing at the University of Minnesota. Research Computing is an umbrella organization that comprises the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, the University of Minnesota Informatics Institute, and U-Spatial.
+MSI is part of Research Computing in the Research and Innovation Office. Research Computing is an umbrella organization that comprises the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, U-Spatial, the Data Science Initiative, and the International Institute for Biosensing.
-MSI currently has two HPC systems available for use by researchers.
 == Memberships ==
-Currently MSI is a member of the Minnesota High Tech Association, the Great Lakes Consortium, and XSEDE.
+MSI is a member of the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation, the Minnesota High Tech Association, the Great Lakes Consortium, and the [[Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment]] (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 ==
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 === HPC resources ===
 [[File:Data center 1.jpg|thumb|MSI Data center 1]]
+Agate - HPE cluster with HPE and AMD CPU nodes and NVidia GPU nodes
-* "[https://www.msi.umn.edu/content/mesabi Mesabi]": Mesabi is an HP heterogeneous system. It is a distributed cluster featuring a large number of nodes with leading edge Intel processors that are tightly integrated via a very high speed communication network. It is currently being installed and tested.
-* ''[https://www.msi.umn.edu/content/itasca Itasca]'': Itasca is an HP Linux cluster with 1,091 HP ProLiant BL280c G6 blade servers, each with two quad-core 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon X5560 "Nehalem EP" processors sharing 24 GiB of system memory, plus 51 Proliant BL460c G8 blade servers, each with two eight-core 2.6&nbsp;GHz E5-2670 Xeon "Sandy Bridge EP" processors with 64, 128, or 256 GiB of memory, with a 40-gigabit QDR InfiniBand (IB) interconnect. In total, Itasca consists of 9,712 compute cores and 25 TiB of main memory.
-===Laboratories===
-* [http://www.msi.umn.edu/labs/bscl Basic Sciences Computing] (BSCL)
-* [http://www.msi.umn.edu/labs/cgl Computational Genetics] (CGL)
-* [http://www.msi.umn.edu/labs/bmsdl Biomedical Modeling, Simulation, and Design] (BMSDL)
-* [http://www.msi.umn.edu/labs/lmvl LCSE-MSI Visualization Laboratory] (LMVL)
-* [http://www.msi.umn.edu/labs/sdvl Scientific Development and Visualization] (SDVL)
 == References ==
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 * Vance, Ashlee. "Minnesota’s Enormous Apples Computer - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com." Technology - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com. Web. 29 July 2010. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/minnesotas-enormous-apples-computer/?smid=pl-share
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-== External links ==
-* [https://www.msi.umn.edu Minnesota Supercomputing Institute]
-* [http://www.umn.edu University of Minnesota]
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 {{University of Minnesota campus}}
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 [[Category:University and college laboratories in the United States]]
 [[Category:Computer science institutes in the United States]]
+[[Category:Research institutes in Minnesota]]