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Supercomputing Institutefor Advanced Computational Research
© 2009 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved.
The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Advanced Computational Research
(MSI)
Established 1985
Supercomputing Institutefor Advanced Computational Research
© 2009 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved.
Cutting edge computation-based research:An infrastructure guided by the research community
Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
Hardware Software User Support
Large Computer Clusters
Computing InfrastructureLaboratories
Special hardware, Storage and Visualizaton
CommercialSoftware
Public/Communitiycodes
Homegrown codes
HPC Scientific computingand Visualization
Biological Computing Support
Application Software Developers
Supercomputing Institutefor Advanced Computational Research
© 2009 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved.
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MSI Researchers, 1998-2007
• There has been a six-fold increase over the past 10 years in the number of life science researchers using MSI resources.
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Supercomputing Institutefor Advanced Computational Research
© 2009 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved.
IT32%
OVPR1%
AHC42%
CBS12%
CFANS10%
CLA2%
CSOM1%
CEHD0.2%
Percentage of MSI Principal Investigators per College
Supercomputing Institutefor Advanced Computational Research
© 2009 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved.
Core Resources:Compute,Storage
Computational Labs
Software
User SupportSoftware
Development
For Advanced Computational Research
www.msi.umn.edu
Supercomputing Institute
Fast Networks
resources
Supercomputing Institutefor Advanced Computational Research
© 2009 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved.
For Advanced Computational Research
www.msi.umn.edu
Supercomputing Institute core resources
-Itasca8664 cores;
24 Tb of memory-Calhoun: 2048 cores;4 Tb of memory-BladeCenter1236 cores;
2.5 Tb of memory-Altix432 processors;
876 Gb of sharedmemory-ELMO:
192 cores;768 Gb of memory
Supercomputing Institutefor Advanced Computational Research
© 2009 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved.
For Advanced Computational Research
www.msi.umn.edu
Supercomputing Institute
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
- fast networks- storage
Supercomputing Institutefor Advanced Computational Research
© 2009 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved.
For Advanced Computational Research
www.msi.umn.edu
Supercomputing Institute 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
Supercomputing Institutefor Advanced Computational Research
© 2009 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved.
For Advanced Computational Research
www.msi.umn.edu
Supercomputing Institute 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 Libraries http://www.msi.umn.edu/software
Supercomputing Institutefor Advanced Computational Research
© 2009 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved.
For Advanced Computational Research
www.msi.umn.edu
Supercomputing Institute 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
Supercomputing Institutefor Advanced Computational Research
© 2009 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved.
For Advanced Computational Research
www.msi.umn.edu
Supercomputing Institute 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