About MSI Services

MSI Services

MSI offers more than 125 million hours of free computing annually to University of Minnesota faculty and collaborators. Access is determined by the "fair share" algorithm in the Slurm workload management system, favoring groups with lower recent computing usage and high job efficiency. To ensure access, faculty can lease dedicated hardware on existing HPC systems. Access to MSI includes generous storage allocations for research projects, and groups needing extra storage beyond the maximum included allocations have the option to purchase additional storage. For inquiries about purchasing dedicated access, contact [email protected].
 

Pricing at MSI

Service Catalog

Explore the comprehensive service cost tables below.

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Consulting

MSI consultants are highly trained staff who are familiar with leading-edge software, MSI computing and data storage resources, and advanced analysis spanning a broad range of fields.

Storage Rack at MSI

High Performance Computing

MSI's High Performance Computing (HPC) systems are designed with high speed networking, high performance storage, a range of GPUs, and large amounts of memory in order to support some of the most hard...

Interactive HPC at MSI

Interactive (Real-Time) Computing

MSI’s interactive High Performance Computing (HPC) resources are composed of some of the same systems used to support our batch scheduled HPC activities.

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Batch HPC

The large high performance computing resources at MSI are often in high demand, with over 900 research groups and four to five thousand unique researcher logins competing for time.

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Dedicated Computing

Dedicated computing options are available for purchase when an MSI allocation is not enough to meet your computational needs. Multiple service configurations are available for a one-time fee.

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Data Storage

All MSI users have access to High-Performance Storage (Tier 1 Storage) that is integrated across all of our systems.

Databases at MSI

Portals and Databases

As part of MSI's mission to advance research at the University of Minnesota, MSI hosts and maintains portals to various data analysis software.

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MSI Knowledge Base

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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.

Our Resources

MSI provides a variety of free resources for users seeking to use high-performance computing (HPC) to elevate their research.

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.