Minnesota Supercomputer Institute

Minnesota Supercomputing Institute

The Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation provides supercomputing resources and user support to faculty and students at the University. Our mission is to support research in engineering and physical, biological, medical, mathematical, and computing sciences to find solutions to problems that could not be otherwise attempted. Such efforts often result in domain-specific algorithms and codes that exploit the available computing environments as well as visualization techniques to enhance insight, make displays more informative, and add multimedia values for communications and work environments.

Resources

The Supercomputing Institute's hardware and software resources and technical support are available to researchers at the University and other post-secondary educational institutions in the State of Minnesota.

User Information and Support

The Technical Support Staff provides assistance with all aspects of scientific computing and visualization. This assistance includes—but is not limited to—general user support, writing and porting serial and parallel codes to the supercomputers, development of scripts or user-friendly procedures to allow more productive use of the supercomputing resources, assistance with visualization or communications, assistance with software packages, tutorials on specialized topics or programs, user training, code optimization, parallel model building support, and assistance with workstations used to develop code for the supercomputers.

Feedback

The Supercomputing Institute welcomes your comments. Please use our feedback form to let us know what you're thinking.

Employment

The Supercomputing Institute is currently looking for individuals to fill these roles:

Open House Keynote

At MSI's Open House on April 23, 2008, Tim Mulcahy, Vice President for Research, delivered the keynote address. He spoke about MSI's role at the University and plans for MSI's future. You can view a recording of this address using the Real Player application.

LMVL Opens

The Institute is pleased to announce the opening of the LCSE-MSI (Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering) Visualization Laboratory (LMVL). The laboratory will be available to the MSI user community. Reservations will be required and only escorted use will be available. A number of commercial applications will be available for use. Contact Nancy Rowe for reservations.

CBRI Transition

On March 20, 2008, Tim Mulcahy, Vice President for Research, and Frank Cerra, Senior Vice President for Health Sciences, announced the transfer of research support services and server management previously provided by CBRI to MSI. While the transition is in process you can keep up on latest news on a dedicated web site.