The Computational Infusion for Missouri Undergraduate Science and Engineering (CIMUSE) Consortium is pleased to announce our fourth annual High-Performance Computing Workshop for STEM faculty on Thursday, July 31, 2025 at the MOREnet training facility in Columbia.
The event will kick off with pre-workshop virtual meetings for anyone interested in learning more about available high-performance computing resources. The workshop itself will include presentations by CIMUSE Consortium members on how they are using the CIMUSE supercomputer for their research, their students’ research, and how they are incorporating student use of the HPC in their classroom assignments. We’ll also discuss the CIMUSE Consortium and future grant opportunities. The CIMUSE Consortium business meeting will follow the workshop on Aug. 1, 2025, There is no cost ot attend this event.
Computational Infusion for Missouri Undergraduate Science and Engineering (CIMUSE)
For the last three years, this team has been working with Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs) in the state
to collaborate on National Science Foundation (NSF) grant opportunities. What started out as a planning grant administered by MOREnet now includes a high-performance computing cluster as well as annual collaboration meetings, tours and poster sessions.
The follow on grant from the NSF created CIMUSE, a collaborative composed of Missouri Western,
Southeast Missouri State University, Truman State University and Webster University supported by
MOREnet and the University of Missouri Research Support Services team. The funding was used to
install a high-performance computing cluster that allows users to process large quantities of data
and perform highly complex calculations much faster than a typical desktop or laptop computer.
The 20 nodes in the cluster are housed at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Students and faculty
will be able to use the computing power for research and educational exercises. Our goal is to
replicate the project nationwide.
Another component of the grant is to offer students the opportunity to study and participate in high-
performance computing projects. Selected students will receive funding to attend a summer 2025
workshop, bringing the lessons to their peers as student leaders, possibly as teaching assistants.
Interested in learning more?
Check out these news articles that were written about the first round of grant funding:
NSF Grant Gives Students at Missouri Universities Access to High Performance Computing.