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posted September 24, 2013 Several MSI PIs have been awarded patents over recent months. These PIs are among a large number of University of Minnesota faculty receiving patents, as shown in the OVPR Research blog’s story, “Recent Patents Roundup.”

  posted on September 17, 2013 The Department of Biomedical Engineering, in the College of Science and Engineering, announced recently that they had a “Summer of Grants” in their department – several of their faculty were awarded grants from various funding agencies. Some of these faculty are MSI Principal Investigators and the grants will support research that they are performing at MSI.

posted on September 12, 2013 As part of the ongoing selection process for the next HPC system at MSI, MSI has invited top high performance computing vendors to present their high performance computing portfolios and roadmaps to users in a Town Hall setting. HP will be on-site Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., to provide presentations and have interactive discussions with MSI users. The meeting will take place in Walter Library, Room 402. The agenda is provided below: Introductions

posted on September 4, 2013 Dr. Matthew G. Knepley, University of Chicago, will present a hands-on tutorial for PETSc at MSI on September 30. Dr. Knepley is one of the authors of the widely used PETSc library for scientific computing from Argonne National Laboratory, and is a principal designer of the PyLith library for the solution of dynamic and quasi-static tectonic deformation problems.