Partnerships

Computational Life Sciences Program

• IBM receives feedback through personal communications of user support and systems staff and through the Supercomputing Institute’s research report series.
• University of Minnesota/IBM partnership activities with researchers, including joint efforts with affiliates, are fostered.
• The Supercomputing Institute provides a specially focused program for meeting needs of the entire University of Minnesota high-performance computing research community and the emerging computational needs of the biology community.
• Both IBM and the University benefit from the development of the software expertise needed to take advantage of IBM’s DB2 and DiscoveryLink software.
• IBM staff members have offices at the Supercomputing Institute, which increases the opportunities for partnership interactions.

IBM has awarded the Supercomputing Institute several Shared University Research (SUR) grants, which promote this initiative.

This initiative also includes an affiliates program that provides an opportunity for Minnesota industry and other Minnesota research institutions with interests in the area of computational biology to have access to these computational resources, software, and technical support. The current affiliates are Cargill, the Hormel Institute, and the Mayo Medical School.

Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering

The Supercomputing Institute partners with the Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering (LCSE). Through this partnership, Supercomputing Institute researchers are able to participate in the LCSE program.

The LCSE encourages the participation of Supercomputing Institute researchers with applications that demonstrate or test new technologies under active development, applications requiring very large online data sets, particularly if they must be accessed at very high bandwidth, and applications requiring very high-resolution visualizations, particularly if image animations are needed. Distributed computing applications with tight coupling of computing resources on a fast network are also encouraged.

This partnership was overseen and guided during 2002–03 by the following committees:

Executive Committee

Donald G. Truhlar, Supercomputing Institute Director, Chemistry, Chemical Physics, and Scientific Computation

Paul R. Woodward, Astronomy and Scientific Computation

Program Committee

Paul R. Woodward, Astronomy and Scientific Computation, chair

David A. Yuen, Geology and Geophysics and Scientific Computation

Minnesota Health Informatics Seminar Series

The Supercomputing Institute, along with the Digital Technology Center, co-sponsored a series of seminars for the Graduate Program in Health Informatics at the University of Minnesota in Fall 2002. Speakers from the University of Minnesota, other research institutions, government, and industry gave presentations on a variety of topics from the health informatics field. Some individual seminars were also sponsored by the Biotechnology Institute or the Mathematics Colloquium. The symposium series was organized by Lynda Ellis, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology. Non-University speakers included representatives from the Minnesota Department of Health, the Mayo Clinic, Minnetronix, Incorporated, and LHASA, Ltd.