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Two MSI PIs Elected to National Academy of Engineering

 Awards Engineering

Two MSI PIs, Professor Arthur Erman (Mechanical Engineering; Director, Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center) and Professor Roger Ruan (Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering; Director, Center for Bio

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March 2025 Maintenance

 Maintenance

On Wednesday, March 5, 2025, MSI staff will perform scheduled maintenance and upgrades to various MSI systems. During this month’s scheduled maintenance period, primary storage and Agate will be unava

Grant for MSI PI-Led Forever Green Project

 Agriculture

MSI PI Mitch Hunter, co-director of the Forever Green Initiative, leads a project to develop oilseed crops that was recently awarded a six-year, $10M grant from the Department of Energy. The project c

Software Startup Development Program

 Computer Science Research

The Technology Commercialization office has launched the Software Startup Development Program, a competitive two-phase funding program to support University of Minnesota software start-ups. SSD Phase

MSI PI Richard James Designs Devices Based on Origami

 Engineering Research

The Fall 2024 cover feature for the College of Science and Engineering magazine, Inventing Tomorrow, describes work by MSI PI Richard James (professor, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics) and his for

2025 Research Computing Exhibition Poster Session

 Event Exhibition Research

Users of Research Computing resources are encouraged to submit posters for the annual poster competition to be held at the 2025 Research Computing Exhibition. The Exhibition will be held on Thursday,

February 2025 Maintenance

 Maintenance

On Wednesday, February 5, 2025, MSI staff will perform scheduled maintenance and upgrades to various MSI systems. During this month’s scheduled maintenance period, primary storage and Agate will be un

Research at MSI

Large Learning Model for Cancer Characteristics

Extracting cancer tumor characteristics and other relevant data from these reports is vital for supporting clinical research in cancer domains and for other downstream use cases such as the secondary

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Galaxy 2024

Galaxy is an integrated informatics solution supporting data analysis and research discovery that is used by hundreds of thousands of researchers worldwide. The Galaxy platform has been available at t

Agate Upgrade Boosts AI Research at UMN

The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) has upgraded its high-performance computing cluster Agate. The upgrade greatly expands MSI's capacity for AI-related research and introduces new capabiliti

Aligning AI With Human Values

As ChatGPT took the world by storm in 2023, it became clear that AI systems will soon become ubiquitous in our lives. MSI PI Dongyeop Kang (assistant professor, Computer Science and Engineering) and M

Genetics of Human Milk Production

Breast feeding is widely accepted as the best way for infants to get the nutrition they need to grow and develop. Many factors contribute to the content of a mother’s milk. In the MILK (Mothers and In

Improving Cassava Breeding

Cassava is an important food crop worldwide that can also be used for animal feed and as a source of starch for multiple uses. Researchers are working to develop new varieties of cassava that will be

Atmospheric Chemicals and Their Reactions

The presence and reactions of atmospheric chemicals affect conditions at the ground level. MSI PI Dylan Millet (Professor, Soil, Water, and Climate) studies these chemicals. He uses MSI resources for