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MSI PIs Receive 2023-24 Distinguished Teaching Awards
The University of Minnesota annually recognizes faculty members for their outstanding contributions to teaching and learning. Three MSI PIs have received awards for 2023-24.
MSI PI Hubert Lim to Head Medical Devices Center
The Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center (MDC) has announced that their next Director will be MSI PI Hubert Lim (professor, Otolaryngology and Biomedical Engineering). The MDC, which is part of the Institute for Engineering in Medicine, supports the advancement of medical device innovation.
MSI PIs Named 2024-26 McKnight Land-Grant Professors
Several MSI PIs have been named McKnight Land-Grant Professors for 2024-26. These awards recognize promising junior faculty members.
Mesabi Retirement
After nearly a decade of service to researchers at the University of Minnesota, the Mesabi computing cluster will be retired on June 5, 2024 and MSI’s clusters will be reconfigured during Summer 2024. The Mangi nodes, which have been attached to Mesabi, will remain in service and be attached to Agate under the new arrangement. Agate will also be expanded with newly purchased nodes in the late summer of 2024.   Impacts for MSI users   SLURM Partitions:   SLURM Partitions retiring on June 5:
A “Cure” for Aging
Two MSI PIs from the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, Professor Laura Niedernhofer and Professor Paul Robbins, are featured in an article in the Winter 2024 issue of Minnesota Alumni magazine. Professors Niedernhofer and Robbins oversee the Institute on the Biology of Aging and Metabolism, an interdisciplinary research institute that seeks to answer questions about the fundamental biology of aging.
February 2024 Maintenance
On Wednesday, February 7, 2024, MSI staff will perform scheduled maintenance and upgrades to various MSI systems. During this month’s scheduled maintenance period, primary storage, Mesabi, Mangi, and Agate will be unavailable throughout much of the day. A global system reservation will start at 5:00 a.m. on February 7, 2024. Jobs that cannot be completed before 5:00 a.m. on February 7, 2024 will be held until after maintenance and then started once the system returns to production status.
MSI PI Jian-Ping Wang Receives Achievement Award From IEEE
MSI PI Jian-Ping Wang (professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering) has received the 2024 IEEE Magnetics Society Achievement Award. This is the highest honor in the field of magnetics and is the latest of a series of awards and honors Professor Wang’s research has achieved. This award will be presented at the 2024 Intermag conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in May.

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