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.

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.

Satori

Since its inception in 2013, MGHPCC has been the home of many TOP500 machines, most recently Satori and TX-GAIA at MIT, and Cannon at Harvard.

Since its inception in 2013, MGHPCC has been the home of many TOP500 machines, most recently Satori and TX-GAIA at MIT, and Cannon at Harvard.

Since its inception in 2013, MGHPCC has been the home of many TOP500 machines, most recently Satori and TX-GAIA at MIT, and Cannon at Harvard.

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

June 2026 Publications

Autonomous traffic management? Genetic risk prediction? Transport properties of ionic liquids? A selection of recent publications featuring research using computers at the MGHPCC.

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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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Single-molecule tracker illuminates workings of cancer-related proteins

Broad Institute scientists use their custom-built microscopy and nanotechnology to tag and follow the activity of individual proteins in real time, showing how it can reveal new biology.

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Researchers Discovering New Mosquito-Specific Viruses

Boston University researcher insights may apply to combatting arbovirus diseases like fevers from dengue, Zika and chikungunya virus infections in humans.

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MGHPCC Powers Breakthroughs in Biomedical Research with High-Performance Computing

Shared supercomputing infrastructure at the Center is enabling researchers to tackle data‑intensive challenges across genomics, cancer, infectious disease, and beyond.

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Research projects

The US ATLAS Northeast Tier 2 Center

Yale Budget Lab

Volcanic Eruptions Impact on Stratospheric Chemistry & Ozone

Towards a Whole Brain Cellular Atlas

Tornado Path Detection

The Kempner Institute - Unlocking Intelligence

The Institute for Experiential AI

Taming the Energy Appetite of AI Models

All Research Projects

Collaborative projects

CAREERS Cyberteam

Northeast Research and Education Network

Ecosystem for Research Networking

AI Jumpstart

New England Research Cloud

Red Hat Collaboratory

The US ATLAS Northeast Tier 2 Center

Open Cloud Testbed

ALL Collaborative PROJECTS

OUTREACH & EDUCATION PROJECTS

CSTA - Western MA

Girls Inc. Eureka!

Expanding Computing Education Pathways (ECEP) Alliance

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