On February 26, 2025, ICER celebrated the 20th-anniversary of enabling researchers to accelerate their discoveries with MSU’s supercomputer. When its first supercomputer powered up in 2005, it was cutting-edge. Today, that throughput would be less than one PlayStation 5.

By 2009, the name ICER was coined to reflect the inclusion of research consultants designated to help users with the supercomputer.

With a name like ICER, what better way to celebrate than with ICER Cream? The anniversary event included an MSU Dairy Store collaboration flavor named High-Performance Espresso ICER Cream, which contained a stream of liquid-cooling caramel and chocolate computer chips. A 3D timeline was on display to show the growth of ICER’s computing and support resources over the past 20 years, and a poster session highlighted the transformative research conducted with the supercomputer.