The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) in

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is a core research facility of the

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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

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campus.

History

In 1981, the University of Minnesota became the first U.S. university to acquire a

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, a

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. 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

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(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 {{DEFAULTSORT:University Of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute University of Minnesota Supercomputers University and college laboratories in the United States Computer science institutes in the United States Research institutes in Minnesota