Minnesota Supercomputing Institute

The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) in Minneapolis, Minnesota is an interdisciplinary research program that provides hardware and software resources, as well as technical user support, to faculty and researchers at the University of Minnesota and at other institutions of higher education in Minnesota. MSI is located on the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus in Walter Library.

In 1981, the University of Minnesota was the first U.S. University to acquire a supercomputer (a Cray-1). The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute was created in 1984 to provide high-performance computing resources to the University of Minnesota's research community.

Claudia Neuhauser is the Director of Research Computing at the University of Minnesota. Research Computing is an umbrella organization that comprises the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, the University of Minnesota Informatics Institute, and U-Spatial.

MSI currently has two HPC systems available for use by researchers.

Currently MSI is a member of the Minnesota High Tech Association, the Great Lakes Consortium, and XSEDE.

The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute seeks to provide researchers at the University of Minnesota and at other institutions of higher education in the State of Minnesota access to high-performance computing resources and user support to facilitate successful and cutting-edge research in all disciplines, help researchers attract funding, contribute to undergraduate and graduate education, and benefit the broader community.

MSI is committed to expanding and developing the types of service it offers in order to continue to play its key support role across the growing spectrum of scientific fields.

MSI is also committed to facilitating University-industry collaboration and to promoting technology transfer through the interchange of ideas in the field of supercomputing research, including the dissemination of results of research accomplished with MSI resources.

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