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Providing advanced research computing infrastructure and expertise to the University of Minnesota research and scholarly community and beyond.

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MSI offers a variety of hardware, software, and consulting services to meet any research need.
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MSI advances computational research across a broad range of disciplines.
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Fixes

Fixes to R Library Issues

 Maintenance Update

Due to recent changes to the computing environment around the move to Rocky Linux 8, MSI has been having difficulty providing a stable set of R modules for use on our systems.

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Extended June MSI Maintenance – June 5-7, 2024

 Maintenance

SummaryMSI reserves the first Wednesdays each month for maintenance tasks on its various computing, storage, and infrastructure systems. The next maintenance period, however, will be extended for 1-2 extra days in order for more upgrades to be completed to make MSI a more reliable and more capable resource for U of M researchers. You will not be able to use the HPC clusters from 5 a.m.

UMN Single Cell Symposium 2024

The field of single-cell genomics has progressed rapidly over the last 10 years and has changed the way we ask and answer biological questions.

IIB Breakfast Meeting

All are invited to attend the International Institute for Biosensing Breakfast Meeting.

Myers Named 2024 AAPSS Fellow

Awards

MSI PI Samuel Myers (professor, Social Policy and Policy Analysis; Director, Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice) has been named to the 2024 class of Fellows at the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

MSI PIs Named 2024-27 McKnight Presidential Fellows

Awards

The University of Minnesota recently announced the new McKnight Presidential Fellows.

2024 Research Computing Exhibition

 Exhibition

The 15th annual Research Computing Exhibition was held on April 23, 2024, at the MSI offices in Walter Library. .

Improving

Improving Support for Caregivers

More than 30 million Americans provide unpaid care for a loved one as a caregiver.

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Computational Modeling to Determine Effects of Climate Change Mitigation

As the largest terrestrial carbon pool, global soils provide great opportunity for climate change mitigation by transforming atmospheric CO2 as soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks.

Improving Convex Optimization

Convex optimization is an indispensable modeling and computational tool for all science and engineering fields.

Improving Crops Using High-Throughput Phenotyping

Breeding climate-resilient crops and developing targeted management practices are imperative to strengthening global food security.

Genomics and the Progression of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) is a deadly, progressive fibrotic lung disease.

A Pipeline for Functionally Annotating Pangenomes

How an individual’s genetic background influences different traits - for example, coat color, disease risk, etc.

A New Computational Simulation Method for Filtration Media

Filtration is a broadly utilized procedure in chemical, mining, and manufacturing industries, with special representation in Minnesota’s industrial sector.