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Student Visit to MSI
On June 27, two students visited MSI to learn about the MSI and the supercomputers. AJ (Alec) Olson and Jake Grisim, who are visually impaired, were given a tour of MSI by Yectli Huerta, HPC Systems Administrator, and Eric Badger, Student Technical Support Lead. AJ attends St. Croix Preparatory Academy and Jake attends Shakopee Middle School. Jake and AJ visited the machine room, where they learned about supercomputers and were able to touch and inspect various pieces of equipment.
Genomics of Grains
posted June 26, 2012
Data-Storage Case Study
  The Active Archive Alliance has released a case study about MSI’s Spectra Logic file archive system. The case study can be found on the linked page under the "University of Minnesota" header.   
2012 Minnesota Futures Grant Winners
 
Wheat Rust Genomics
MSI PI Les Szabo (Plant Pathology) was interviewed on June 11 on Minnesota Public Radio's Daily Circuit program. He discussed his work with wheat rust, a common and devastating disease of wheat caused by the Puccinia graminis pathogen. Professor Szabo is using MSI to study the genomics of a variant of this pathogen, Ug99, which is highly virulent and against which most wheat does not have resistance.  

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