James “JJ” Johnson, who worked at MSI as a senior software developer for many years, passed away on March 1, 2024. JJ worked on the University of Minnesota’s Galaxy and Galaxy-P projects.
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 20
After almost 10 years of service, the Mesabi HPC system will be retired on June 5, 2024 to make room for the expansion of the Agate cluster. Mesabi is becoming increasingly expensive to maintain.