Executive Statement of Mission Summary The Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation is an interdisciplinary research program of the University of Minnesota. The mission of the Supercomputing Institute is supercomputing research. This includes digital simulation and advanced computation. The Supercomputing Institute promotes its mission in several ways. These include computer resource allocations, laboratories, travel awards, and research scholarships. The Supercomputing Institute supports supercomputing research carried out using supercomputers and other resources provided directly by the Institute or by external vendors. The Supercomputing Institute also supports visits to the University of Minnesota for the purpose of supercomputing research. The Supercomputing Institute provides a focal point for collaborative research on supercomputing within the University and the State. The Supercomputing Institute promotes the interchange of ideas in the field of supercomputing research including the dissemination of results of research accomplished with its resources. Mission Statement The Supercomputing Institute is an interdisciplinary research program spanning all colleges of the University of Minnesota. The mission of the Supercomputing Institute is supercomputing research, which includes digital simulation and advanced computation. The Supercomputing Institute promotes its mission in several ways: 1. The Supercomputing Institute supports supercomputing research carried out using the supercomputers and other state-of-the-art resources for advanced computations and visualizations. The Supercomputing Institute purchases and then allocates these resources to researchers at the University of Minnesota and other accredited post-secondary educational institutions in the State of Minnesota. Several administrative tasks are involved in accomplishing this goal, including: cooperating with external resource providers to determine equipment costs, rates, and services available announcing resource availability and issuing calls for proposals reviewing proposals and awarding resource allocations and grants monitoring, spending, and adjusting allocations and grants for unanticipated needs providing support for grant proposal preparation and for other researcher needs 2. The Supercomputing Institute purchases, maintains, and manages additional resources that complement the supercomputing and support resources provided by external parties and provides these to Supercomputing Institute researchers to create a more favorable supercomputing environment. These resources include: offices and computational work rooms, both close to the supercomputing equipment and close to other activities on campus, rooms include general and specialized furnishings access to facilities for out-state researchers, and other visitors communications networks workstations, including various specialized graphics and visualization devices, software development ports and file servers disk and magnetic tape storage manuals, reference books, and other useful literature 3. The Supercomputing Institute provides all forms of user technical support for high-performance computing, including visualization, informatics, and data mining. 4. The Supercomputing Institute supports visits to the University of Minnesota for the purpose of supercomputing research. This includes two programs: Research Scholarship Program for postdoctoral associates and visiting researchers travel awards for collaborative researchers 5. The Supercomputing Institute promotes the interchange of ideas in the field of supercomputing research, including the dissemination of results of research accomplished with its resources. The subprograms involved in this promotion are: seminars by local and visiting researchers, including travel costs for invited speakers users' meetings symposia and workshops preparation, publication, and distribution of a research bulletin collection, announcement, and distribution of preprints and reprints of the Supercomputing Institute's research (collection from individual researchers; announcement and distribution at the University, in the state, and to the national and international research communities) providing travel assistance for Supercomputing Institute researchers to present their results at conferences hard-copy and on-line communications about research programs and information sharing 6. The Supercomputing Institute provides educational services related to supercomputing and provides an interdisciplinary focus for undergraduate and graduate education related to supercomputing and scientific computing. The chief vehicle for education is faculty supervision of research in scientific computation by postdoctoral, graduate, and undergraduate students. The Institute also provides short courses and symposia at the graduate research level, in addition to the educational aspects of several other activities listed above. Finally the Institute has established and helps support the Graduate Program in Scientific Computation. 7. The Supercomputing Institute provides a focal point for academic and industrial collaborative research on supercomputing within the University and the state. In addition to providing an environment for collaborative work, the Supercomputing Institute assists University researchers seeking external funding by providing support for grant proposal preparation and by administering grants that reside in the Institute. 8. The Institute carries out long-range planning to ensure, as well as possible, that University spending in the high-performance computing area meets the requirements of faculty carrying out research in this area.