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August 27, 2020
The Story, and the Science, behind BU’s COVID-19 Dashboard

Armed with high-performance computing resources at the MGHPCC, BU scientists are “all hands on deck” supporting a one-of-a-kind system comprising custom software, real-time campus network modeling, contact tracing, and case cluster management.

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August 24, 2020
Op-ed: The most important scientific job you've never heard of

John Goodhue, Director, Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center and Principal Investigator, Northeast Cyberteam Initiative writing about the importance of cultivating a high-performance computing talent pipeline.

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August 13, 2020
Checking the Medicine Cabinet to Interrupt COVID-19 at the Molecular Level

In the face of the COVID 19 pandemic, a Massachusetts biotech startup turns to the MGHPCC for HPC resources in its hunt for existing FDA-approved drugs that might be a therapeutic candidate against the novel coronavirus.

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August 5, 2020
July Publications

Below is a selection of papers that appeared in May 2020  reporting the results of research using the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC), or acknowledging the use of Harvard’s Odyssey or Cannon Clusters, Northeastern’s Discovery Cluster, the Boston University Shared Computing Cluster and MIT's Engaging Cluster all of which are housed at the MGHPCC.

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July 16, 2020
Regional Research Computing Collaboration to be Explored at PEARC20

Northeast Cyberteam will offer lessons learned.

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July 16, 2020
Research Computing Q&A Site to be Examined at PEARC20

MGHPCC associate the Northeast Cyberteam and Campus Champions will discuss evolution and future of Ask.CI

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July 16, 2020
Changing the Face of Computer Science Education One State at a Time

It has long been recognized that computing, as a field, is strikingly less diverse than the users of the technology it produces, exhibiting a stubbornly enduring gender and underrepresented minority gap often referred to as “the Missing 70%.” MGHPCC partner, the NSF funded Expanding Computing Education Pathways (ECEP) Alliance, seeks to facilitate state-level systemic change […]

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July 14, 2020
A New Role for a Tiny Linker in Transmembrane Ion Channels

UMass Amherst, Washington University team reveals new mode of channel regulation in study leveraging MGHPCC computing resources.

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July 1, 2020
Not too hot, not too cold but still, is it just right?

Modelers at UMass Lowell use MGHPCC computers to assess whether the close stellar proximity of a recently discovered Red-dwarf orbiting, Earth-like exoplanet could negatively impact its effective habitability.

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July 1, 2020
June Publications

Below is a selection of papers that appeared in May 2020  reporting the results of research using the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC), or acknowledging the use of Harvard’s Odyssey or Cannon Clusters, Northeastern’s Discovery Cluster, the Boston University Shared Computing Cluster and MIT's Engaging Cluster all of which are housed at the MGHPCC.

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June 24, 2020
What causes Saturn’s strange polar cloud hexagon?

Simulation with deep convection run on computers housed at the MGHPCC points to hidden vortices.

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June 24, 2020
Mayor Announces 2020 MGHPCC Scholarship Winners

Total Awards Top $60k, Part of Broader Collaboration on Education & Workforce Development.

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June 2, 2020
May Publications

Below is a selection of papers that appeared in May 2020  reporting the results of research using the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC), or acknowledging the use of Harvard’s Odyssey or Cannon Clusters, Northeastern’s Discovery Cluster, the Boston University Shared Computing Cluster and MIT's Engaging Cluster all of which are housed at the MGHPCC.

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June 2, 2020
AMD COVID-19 HPC Fund to Deliver Supercomputing Clusters to Researchers Combatting COVID-19

Donation of high-performance AMD CPUs and GPUs to NYU, MIT, and Rice University brings over seven petaflops of compute power to fight global pandemic. MIT's will be housed at the MGHPCC.

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May 6, 2020
April Publications

Below is a selection of papers that appeared in April 2020  reporting the results of research using the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC), or acknowledging the use of Harvard’s Odyssey or Cannon Clusters, Northeastern’s Discovery Cluster, the Boston University Shared Computing Cluster and MIT's Engaging Cluster all of which are housed at the MGHPCC.

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April 30, 2020
Computational techniques explore 'the dark side of amyloid aggregation in the brain

UMass Amherst scientists advance knowledge of neurodegenerative fibril formation using computers at the MGHPCC.

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April 29, 2020
Smashing Discoveries

Using computers housed at the MGHPCC, UMass Dartmouth graduate student develops new model to aid gravitational wave discoveries.

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April 22, 2020
Microbiome Pattern Hunting

Robert Marsland III is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Theoretical Biophysics Group at Boston University. He uses computers housed at the MGHPCC in his work hunting down the governing principles underpinning the dynamics and community ecology of microbial systems on scales from the human gut up to that of the planet itself.

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April 13, 2020
MGHPCC-Boston University collaboration helps fight coronavirus with computing

MGHPCC and the Mass Open Cloud (MOC) project are collaborating with MOC partners Intel and Red Hat to match volunteer experts in computing with projects that need help in the fight against COVID-19. 

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April 9, 2020
COVID-19 COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES FOR RESEARCHERS

Members of the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Consortium are joining forces to provide broad access to the high-performance computing resources they have available, for use in projects were these resources could help to accelerate resolution of the COVID-19 crisis.

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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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