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The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Advanced Computational Research (MSI)

The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Advanced Computational Research (MSI). Established 1985. Minnesota Supercomputing Institute. Cutting edge computation-based research: An infrastructure guided by the research community. Hardware. Software. User Support. Large Computer Clusters.

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The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Advanced Computational Research (MSI)

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  1. The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Advanced Computational Research (MSI) Established 1985

  2. Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Cutting edge computation-based research: An infrastructure guided by the research community Hardware Software User Support Large Computer Clusters Commercial Software HPC Scientific computing and Visualization Computing InfrastructureLaboratories Public/Communitiy codes Biological Computing Support Homegrown codes Application Software Developers Special hardware, Storage and Visualizaton

  3. There has been a six-fold increase over the past 10 years in the number of life science researchers using MSI resources. MSI Researchers, 1998-2007 9% 44% 47%

  4. Percentage of MSI Principal Investigators per College CSOM 1% CFANS 10% CBS 12% CLA 2% CEHD 0.2%

  5. Supercomputing Institute For Advanced Computational Research www.msi.umn.edu resources Computational Labs Software Core Resources: Compute, Storage User Support Software Development Fast Networks

  6. Supercomputing Institute For Advanced Computational Research www.msi.umn.edu core resources -Itasca 8664 cores; 24 Tb of memory -Calhoun: 2048 cores; 4 Tb of memory -BladeCenter 1236 cores; 2.5 Tb of memory -Altix 432 processors; 876 Gb of shared memory -ELMO: 192 cores; 768 Gb of memory

  7. Supercomputing Institute For Advanced Computational Research www.msi.umn.edu - fast networks - storage • NETWORK • - 10G-connected systems: • Calhoun, Elmo, Itasca • - 1G-connected systems: • All core infrastructure systems • STORAGE • Laboratories: 105 TB usable + 36 TB usable High Perf. disk • Core Resources: ~1/2 Petabyte

  8. Supercomputing Institute For Advanced Computational Research www.msi.umn.edu laboratories • Basic Sciences Computing Lab • Proteomics, Structural Biology • Computational Genetics Lab • Bioinformatics, Genomics • Biomed. Modeling, Simulation and Design Lab • Molecular Modeling, Drug Design • Scientific Development & Visualization Lab • CFD, Analysis, Computation, Code development • Scientific Data Management Lab • Databases, Data Mining • UMN-BICB Computational Lab • Comp.Bio., life science • LCSE-MSI Visualization Lab

  9. Supercomputing Institute For Advanced Computational Research www.msi.umn.edu software • Over 420 commercial and publicly available software packages installed and maintained at MSI. Software titles span: • Engineering • Chemical & Phys. Sciences • Life Sciences • Development Tools • Graphics & Visualization • Mathematics • Compilers, Math Librarieshttp://www.msi.umn.edu/software

  10. Supercomputing Institute For Advanced Computational Research www.msi.umn.edu user support • User support: • Code optimization and tuning • User training, tutorials and hands-on workshops on specialized topics • Debugging codes, building parallel models and converting serial codes to parallel codes • Developing software, e.g. high-throughput data analysis, etc. • Databases, e.g. warehousing, specific data storage needs, etc. • Porting codes and software to the supercomputers • Technical support and training for commercial and public domain software • Grant proposals (research partnerships) • Etc. • Foster collaborations between researchers, service groups, etc

  11. Supercomputing Institute For Advanced Computational Research www.msi.umn.edu user support • Tutorials, Workshops • Three sessions per year: Fall, Spring and Summer • Tutorial list can be found at https://www.msi.umn.edu/tutorial • Tutorials are available via streaming video • Archive of tutorial materials and video stream: https://www.msi.umn.edu/support/materials.html • Software vendor tutorials

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