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Apr 9 2013

Mel Bernstein elected president of MGHPCC

Senior Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Education Mel Bernstein was recently named president of the state’s groundbreaking high-performance computing center. Photo by Mary Knox Merrill. Mel Bern­stein, Northeastern’s senior vice provost for research and grad­uate edu­ca­tion, has been unan­i­mously elected pres­i­dent of the Mass­a­chu­setts Green High Per­for­mance Com­puting Center, a state-​​of-​​the-​​art com­pu­ta­tional infra­struc­ture and col­lab­o­ra­tive... Read more

Mar 25 2013

Thanks for Giving comes to MGHPCC

_MG_5826 Girls Inc. of Holyoke, a MGHPCC community partner, highlighted new strategic STEM initiatives and programming for girls at its February 28th “Thanks for Giving” Reception. The event provided friends and supporters of Girls Inc. the opportunity to interact with the girls themselves and learn more... Read more

Mar 21 2013

MGHPCC at the American Council on Education Meeting, Washington DC

img_0655-500 In a session entitled “Change in Action: Innovative Practices from our Member Campuses,” at the recent American Council on Education National meeting in Washington, DC, Mel Bernstein, Senior Vice Provost for Research & Graduate Education along with his colleague Tim Leshan, Vice President... Read more

Mar 12 2013

MGHPCC Putting the “Green” in High Performance Computing

6a0133ec786504970b017ee911f788970d MGHPCC Executive Director John Goodhue explains how our recently completed high performance computing center in Holyoke will help Massachusetts stay at the forefront of discovery and innovation, and demonstrate clean energy leadership through application of efficient data center design and technology.

Mar 6 2013

MGHPCC Recipient of Major MLSC Grant

Governor Deval Patrick is joined by representatives from Western Massachusetts awardee organizations, Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse and Holyoke Community College students at the Feb. 28th Massachusetts Life Sciences Center capital grant announcement. The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) receives a $4.54 million grant from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) for a computer system to be used for research in the life sciences.

Feb 28 2013

Medicine in the Cloud

brain-scan-0081 2012 seed grant recipients Jonathan Appavoo (BU) and Ellen Grant (Boston Children's Hospital) share their cloud enabled fetal neuro-imaging application.

Feb 20 2013

Pioneering a Return to the Pioneer Valley

bupioneersgravatar-700x280 With the ribbon cutting behind us, MGHPCC is in the process of welcoming its first tenants: Among them the BU I.T. team.

Jan 17 2013

MGHPCC 2013 Seed Fund Awards Announced

jan2013seedfundawards-small MGHPCC awards $500,000 in second round of seed grants for collaborative research in array of scientific disciplines.

Dec 11 2012

Ribbon Cutting Roundup

8226606907_8071c1f391_c Holyoke, November 15th, representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the City of Holyoke, Boston University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts, and industry partners EMC and CISCO gathered for a ribbon-cutting... Read more

Nov 4 2012

Big Data, Big Computation and the Genomic Jigsaw Puzzle

dna The human genome is made up of 3 billion base pairs. Reading the genome from a modern, high-speed sequencer is a lot like doing a big jigsaw puzzle. Computer Scientist, Assistant Professor Yanlei Diao (UMass Amherst) is leading a multi institution collaboration to develop next-generation, on-demand big... Read more