Digital Technology Center

The Supercomputing Institute plays a central role in the University of Minnesota’s digital technology initiative. This initiative includes technologies based on computers, electronics, telecommunications, digital design, computational biology, systems recognition and verification, graphics and visualization, databases and data mining, networks, storage, artificial intelligence, robotics and vision, signal processing and wireless technology, and electronic commerce. Key to this initiative is the renovation of Walter Library on the University’s East Bank Campus into a Digital Technology Center. This $63.4 million renovation kept the library’s historic 1920s decor intact while revamping the interior to include state-of-the-art technology. The Supercomputing Institute joined the Digital Technology Center in 2001 and moved to the home of the Digital Technology Center in Walter Library in March 2002, where it is located on the fifth floor and part of the fourth floor and basement.