TheMinnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) inMinneapolis, Minnesota is a core research facility of theUniversity of Minnesota that provides hardware and software resources, as well as technical user support, to faculty and researchers at the university and at other institutions of higher education in Minnesota. MSI is located inWalter Library, on the university'sTwin Cities campus.
In 1981, the University of Minnesota became the first U.S. university to acquire asupercomputer, aCray-1. The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute was created in 1984 to provide high-performance computing resources to the University of Minnesota's research community. MSI currently has one HPC cluster, Agate, available for use.
MSI is part of Research Computing in the Research and Innovation Office. Research Computing is an umbrella organization that comprises the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, U-Spatial, the Data Science Initiative, and the International Institute for Biosensing.
MSI is a member of the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation, the Minnesota High Tech Association, the Great Lakes Consortium, and theExtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE).
Agate - HPE cluster with HPE and AMD CPU nodes and NVidia GPU nodes
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