The User 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.

Each member of the User Support Staff can provide technical assistance in their area of expertise. The areas of expertise include Computational Chemistry, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Structure Mechanics, Design Optimization, Structural and Molecular Biology, Data Mining,Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics, Proteomics, Scientific Visualization, and Geophysics.

The User Support Staff can visit your research group to brainstorm solutions to problems you may have encountered in supercomputing research or to assist in supercomputing technical details for proposals to the Institute.

You may contact the User Support staff through the help request form, by sending email to help@msi.umn.edu, or by calling 626-0802 (8:30am - 5:00pm Monday through Friday). You may also use these contacts to report problems with the systems.

If you need to contact individual members of the staff directly, their phone numbers and email addresses are listed below.

Director of Scientific Computing and Applications
			H. Birali Runesha, PhD. phone: (612) 624-8857 email: runesha@msi.umn.edu

Application Development
John Chilton
			Software Developer phone: (612) 625-0917 email: chilton@msi.umn.edu
Wen Dong
			Web Interface Programmer phone: (612) 624-0969 email: wdong@msi.umn.edu
James E. Johnson
			Software Developer phone: (612) 624-0533 email: jj@msi.umn.edu
Benjamin Lynch, PhD.
			Lead Application Software Development; Computational Chemistry Consultant phone: (612) 624-4122 email: blynch@msi.umn.edu
Mark Nelson
			Lead Software Developer phone: (612) 626-4479 email: mark@msi.umn.edu
Trevor J. Wennblom
			Software Developer phone: (612) 625-0843 email: trevor@msi.umn.edu
Biological Computation
Can Ergenekan, PhD.
			Basic Sciences Laboratory Manager; Computational Structural Biology Consultant phone: (612) 624-3737 email: ergeneka@msi.umn.edu
Zheng Jin Tu, PhD.
			Computational Genetics Laboratory Manager; Computational Biology Consultant phone: 520 Walter: (612) 624-9504. 136 Cargill: (612) 624-6513 email: ztu@msi.umn.edu
Charles R. Paule
			Computational Biology Consultant email: paule005@umn.edu
Wayne Xu, PhD.
			Computational Genomics Consultant phone: 550 Walter (612) 624-1447. 136 Cargill (612) 624-6463 email: wxu@msi.umn.edu
Yanji Xu, PhD.
			Computational Proteomics and Protein Science Consultant phone: 539 Walter (612) 625-6573. email: yxu@msi.umn.edu
HPC and Scientific Computation
Peter Maye, PhD.
			Computational Biochemistry Consultant phone: (612) 624-7427 email: pvmaye@msi.umn.edu
David Porter, PhD.
			Scientific Computation Consultant phone: (612) 625-2283 email: porter@msi.umn.edu
Haoyu Yu, PhD.
			Data Mining Consultant phone: (612) 625-1709 email: haoyu@msi.umn.edu
Shuxia Zhang, PhD.
			Scientific Computation Consultant phone: (612) 624-8858 email: szhang@msi.umn.edu
Visualization
Ravishankar Chityala, PhD.
			Scientific Development and Visualization Laboratory Manager; Scientific Visualization Consultant phone: (612) 626-3451 email: chityala@msi.umn.edu web: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~chith001
Nancy Rowe
			Scientific Visualization Consultant phone: (612) 624-2390 email: rowe@msi.umn.edu

In general, Technical Support Staff are available 8:30 AM until 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday except University Holidays.  

This information is available in alternative formats upon request by individuals with disabilities. Please send email to alt-format@msi.umn.edu or call 612-624-0528.
 

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