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About the MGHPCC

The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) is an intercollegiate high-performance computing facility. It is a joint venture of Boston University, Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, and the University of Massachusetts system.

Located in Holyoke, MA

90 miles west of Boston, computing and storage resources at the MGHPCC data center serve a user community of more than 20,000 faculty and student researchers and educators, supported by on-campus research teams.
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Millions of Virtual Experiments Monthly 

Resources housed at the MGHPCC enable its users to perform millions of virtual experiments each month advancing understanding in societally important areas such as Climate, Energy, Medicine, Materials, Health, Space, and Computing.
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Use our Facilities

As a regional data center for research and education, the MGHPCC is a resource open to all.
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Green Design

Detailed attention to maximizing energy efficiency while minimizing negative environmental impacts allowed the MGHPCC to become the first university research data center ever to achieve LEED Platinum Certification. 
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Collaborative Projects

The MGHPCC was built to enable the five member institutions to share building infrastructure (space, power, and cooling), but once they were under the same roof, cross-consortium collaboration started to happen on a regular basis.
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Education and Outreach

Consistent with the broadening participation goals of its founding members, the MGHPCC is an active participant in multiple local, regional, and national education and outreach initiatives.
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Research projects

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Dusty With a Chance of Star Formation
Checking the Medicine Cabinet to Interrupt COVID-19 at the Molecular Level
Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold But Still, Is It Just Right?​
Smashing Discoveries​
Microbiome Pattern Hunting
Modeling the Air we Breathe
Exploring Phytoplankton Diversity
The Computer Will See You Now
Computing the Toll of Trapped Diamondback Terrapins
Edging Towards a Greener Future
Physics-driven Drug Discovery
Modeling Plasma-Surface Interactions
Sensing Subduction Zones
Neural Networks & Earthquakes
Small Stars, Smaller Planets, Big Computing
Data Visualization using Climate Reanalyzer
Getting to Grips with Glassy Materials
Modeling Molecular Engines
Forest Mapping: When the Budworms come to Dinner
Exploring Thermoelectric Behavior at the Nanoscale
The Trickiness of Talking to Computers
A Genomic Take on Geobiology
From Grass to Gas
Teaching Computers to Identify Odors
From Games to Brains
The Trouble with Turbulence
A New Twist
A Little Bit of This... A Little Bit of That..
Looking Like an Alien!
Locking Up Computing
Modeling Supernovae
Sound Solution
Lessons in a Virtual Test Tube​
Crack Computing
Automated Real-time Medical Imaging Analysis
Towards a Smarter Greener Grid
Heading Off Head Blight
Organic Light-Harvesting Antennae
Art and AI
Excited by Photons
Tapping into an Ocean of Data
Computing Global Change
Star Power
Engineering the Human Microbiome
Computing Social Capital
Computers Diagnosing Disease
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Collaborative projects

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Outreach & Education Projects

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