MGHPCC

The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) provides state-of-the-art infrastructure for computationally intensive research.

The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) provides state-of-the-art infrastructure for computationally intensive research.

The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) provides state-of-the-art infrastructure for computationally intensive research.

OUR RESEARCH IMPACT

The MGHPCC is a regional center for research and education where advanced computing helps improve health, energy, resilience, and scientific discovery.

The MGHPCC is a regional center for research and education where advanced computing helps improve health, energy, resilience, and scientific discovery.

OUR RESEARCH IMPACT

The MGHPCC is a regional center for research and education where advanced computing helps improve health, energy, resilience, and scientific discovery.

OUR RESEARCH IMPACT

Racks

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.

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.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

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.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Consortium

MGHPCC is a collaboration among research-intensive universities - Boston University, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, and the University of Massachusetts.

MGHPCC is a collaboration among some of the most research-intensive universities in Massachusetts - Boston University, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, and the University of Massachusetts.

MGHPCC is a collaboration among research-intensive universities - Boston University, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, the University of Massachusetts, and Yale.

Cooling

The Center provides space, power, cooling, and high-speed connectivity, as well as contributing to a virtual commons for regional academic research computing.

The Center provides space, power, cooling, and high-speed connectivity, as well as contributing to a virtual commons for regional academic research computing.

The Center provides space, power, cooling, and high-speed connectivity, as well as contributing to a virtual commons for regional academic research computing.

New LEED

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.

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.

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.

Specs

The facility hosts 100s of 1000s of CPUs, millions of GPU cores, over 50PB of storage and 2 TB per sec of network access with connections to numerous campus, regional, and national networks (including Internet2 and ESNET, and high-speed links to cloud providers) with access speeds ranging from 10 to 100 gbps.

The facility hosts 100s of 1000s of CPUs, millions of GPU cores, over 50PB of storage and 2 TB per sec of network access with connections to numerous campus, regional, and national networks (including Internet2 and ESNET, and high-speed links to cloud providers) with access speeds ranging from 10 to 100 gbps.

The facility hosts 100s of 1000s of CPUs, millions of GPU cores, over 50PB of storage and 2 TB per sec of network access with connections to numerous campus, regional, and national networks (including Internet2 and ESNET, and high-speed links to cloud providers) with access speeds ranging from 10 to 100 gbps.

Collaborative Projects

Multiple collaborative projects have emerged from the research computing ecosystem with activities focussing variously around computing, storage, and data center and network infrastructure, but also the people who both use and facilitate the use of the various resources.

Multiple collaborative projects have emerged from the research computing ecosystem with activities focussing variously around computing, storage, and data center and network infrastructure, but also the people who both use and facilitate the use of the various resources.

Multiple collaborative projects have emerged from the research computing ecosystem with activities focussing variously around computing, storage, and data center and network infrastructure, but also the people who both use and facilitate the use of the various resources.

Connected Initiatives

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.

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.

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.

Engagement

Mindful of the importance of workforce development to the long-term economic future of the region, the MGHPCC and its founding universities work with local public schools, institutions of higher education, and community organizations to promote STEM and computer science literacy.

Mindful of the importance of workforce development to the long-term economic future of the region, the MGHPCC and its founding universities work with local public schools, institutions of higher education, and community organizations to promote STEM and computer science literacy.

Mindful of the importance of workforce development to the long-term economic future of the region, the MGHPCC and its founding universities work with local public schools, institutions of higher education, and community organizations to promote STEM and computer science literacy.

Latest News

MGHPCC: Supporting Computationally Intensive Research and Education

A regional center for research and education where advanced computing helps improve health, energy, resilience, and scientific discovery.

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August 2026 Publications

Generative AI in games? Cleaning TESS images? Prediction of relative kinetic solvent effects? A selection of recent publications featuring research using computers at the MGHPCC.

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This AI scientist can run an X-ray experiment.

Reporting on Bansil Lab research using NEU's Discovery Cluster highlights the very real prospect of self-driving labs.

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Combining AI with laboratory evolution yields improved proteins

Broad Institute researchers found that AI-redesigned versions of natural proteins serve as superior starting points to evolve proteins with new functions.

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A new generative AI approach to predicting chemical reactions

MIT chemists use MGHPCC computers to design impact-resistant plastics.

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800G per second! UMass Amherst Advances Next-Gen Research Networking

What does it take to move scientific data at speeds fast enough to support breakthroughs in particle physics, genomics, climate modeling, and space science? At UMass Amherst, the answer increasingly lies in building and sharing next-generation research networking infrastructure.

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Research projects

Microplastic-Free by Design

Ephemeral Stream Water Contributions to US Drainage Networks

Multifunctional 3D-Printed Materials

The Institute for Experiential AI

Computational Modeling of Biological Systems

Monte Carlo eXtreme (MCX) - a Physically-Accurate Photon Simulator

Sailing the Symbiosis Seascape

Dexterous Robotic Hands

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Collaborative projects

Northeast Research and Education Network

The US ATLAS Northeast Tier 2 Center

Open Cloud Testbed

Northeast Storage Exchange

Northern Crossroads

Internet2

Energy Science Network

FABRIC Testbed

ALL Collaborative PROJECTS

OUTREACH & EDUCATION PROJECTS

CSTA - Western MA

Girls Inc. Eureka!

Expanding Computing Education Pathways (ECEP) Alliance

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