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Supercomputing Institute for Advanced Computational Research © 2009 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. The Minnesota Supercomputing titute for Advanced Computational Rese (MSI) Established 1985

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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

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Supercomputing Institutefor Advanced Computational Research

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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

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Supercomputing Institutefor Advanced Computational Research

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Other Researchers

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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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IT32%

OVPR1%

AHC42%

CBS12%

CFANS10%

CLA2%

CSOM1%

CEHD0.2%

Percentage of MSI Principal Investigators per College

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Supercomputing Institutefor Advanced Computational Research

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Core Resources:Compute,Storage

Computational Labs

Software

User SupportSoftware

Development

For Advanced Computational Research

www.msi.umn.edu

Supercomputing Institute

Fast Networks

resources

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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

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Supercomputing Institutefor Advanced Computational Research

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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

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Supercomputing Institutefor Advanced Computational Research

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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

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Supercomputing Institutefor Advanced Computational Research

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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

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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

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Supercomputing Institutefor Advanced Computational Research

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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