Our Resources

Hardware, Software, Experts

MSI provides a variety of free resources for users seeking to use high-performance computing (HPC) to elevate their research. MSI experts are available for consultation with research groups, and provide training across a broad range of expertise areas and experience levels. In addition, dedicated hardware, software, and storage resources can be tailored to meet your research needs. MSI has three high-performance computing clusters: Mesabi, Mangi, and Agate. The guides below cover a variety of topics to help you get started using MSI HPC resources.

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Getting Started

Access to MSI resources is available to Principal Investigators (PIs) and their research groups.

Knowledge Base

MSI's Knowledge Base is a collection of reference material on topics such as Creating and Managing an MSI group, Setting up your MSI Environment, Interactive Computing, Batch Job Computing, and Data Transfer and Storage.

Users bulletin

The Users Bulletin provides a summary of new policies, procedures, and events of interest to MSI users.

Job Scheduler

MSI's latest transition to this state-of-the-art scheduler for HPC clusters marks a significant step towards enhanced resource allocation and task management.

Job Partitions

MSI uses the Slurm scheduler to fairly allocate compute resources to users of our systems.

Software Page

MSI offers many software packages (listed below) for use by researchers in various fields of research.

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About MSI

We offer advanced research computing infrastructure and expertise to the University of Minnesota's research community, scholarly groups, and the State of Minnesota.

About MSI Services

MSI offers more than 125 million hours of free computing annually to University of Minnesota faculty and collaborators.

Elevating Research

The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) is pivotal for cutting-edge research and public-private collaborations, with a profound impact on the University, the state of Minnesota, and the Nation.