Gopher Supercomputing: Past, Present, and Future
by Matt Meshulam | at Minnebar 20
The University of Minnesota has been a longstanding leader in scientific computing. It was the first U.S. University to buy a supercomputer, from Minnesota- and Wisconsin-based Cray Research in 1981. In the years since, the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute has offered on-campus computing resources and technical expertise to tens of thousands of researchers around the state, enabling scientific discoveries in disciplines including genetics, chemistry, astronomy, and economics.
As an engineer at MSI, I've seen firsthand the value of this resource to the research community, and the interesting legacy quirks that come with operating a decades-old computing center.
In this session, I'll share an overview of MSI's history, a virtual tour of its current datacenter in the basement of a 100-year-old library, and get into some of the computational research and the technical challenges we're wrestling with today. And we'll touch on how that's posed to change in the years ahead, as AI seeps into academia and hyperscalers eat the world's hardware supply.
Matt Meshulam
I'm a software engineer at the University of Minnesota, enabling scientific research at the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute. Previously I spent seven years at Reverb.com, the marketplace for musical instruments.
Over my career I've worked as an engineer, product manager, and sales engineer at a variety of tech companies, from 10-person startups to financial software firms older than I am.
A Chicago native, I live in Minneapolis with my spouse and dog. Outside of work I enjoy biking, gardening, and cooking.
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