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Research Laboratories


Basic Sciences Computing Laboratory

Since 1996, the Supercomputing Institute has provided high-performance workstations and visualization equipment to enhance the research capabilities of the University community through the Nils Hasselmo Hall located on the East Bank campus of the University of Minnesota. The facility occupies approximately 1700 square feet that includes a workstation room, video/graphics room, machine room, and two offices. The laboratory houses state-of-the-art computing platforms and graphics workstations including a variety of SGI workstations and an IBM Intellistation.

The Supercomputing Institute provides technical support and user support for these high-performance computing resources, and the laboratory is available to all University of Minnesota researchers.

Scientific Development and Visualization Laboratory

The Supercomputing Institute's Scientific Development and Visualization Laboratory, which is located in the Supercomputing Institute's facilities in the Supercomputer Center Building, provides front-end equipment including SGI and IBM workstations, Macintosh workstations, an Intellistation from IBM running Windows NT, a color scanner, a CD writer, a SGI O2 workstation for the creation and manipulation of videos, and a Super-VHS VCR.

The Institute provides user support services for supercomputer-related research using these general-purpose systems.

Medicinal Chemistry-Supercomputing Institute
Visualization/Workstation Laboratory

The Medicinal Chemistry-Supercomputing Institute Workstation/Visualization Laboratory is cosponsored by the Department of Medicinal Chemistry and the Supercomputing Institute. This laboratory is located in Weaver-Densford Hall and contains workstations that are used primarily for scientific visualization.


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