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 Heads to SC26

Behind every major scientific breakthrough is an infrastructure that makes discovery possible. This November at SC26, MGHPCC will share the stories of researchers, technologists, and institutions working together to advance science through high performance computing, data-intensive research, and artificial intelligence.

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Introducing the MGHPCC AI Compute Resource: Shared Infrastructure for the AI Era

A regional resource helping transform AI research into real-world impact, workforce development, and economic opportunity.

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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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AICR in Action: Decoding the Human Brain, One Sound at a Time

How can a shared AI computing resource benefit an MIT neuroscientist? For Josh McDermott, an MGHPCC AICR early adopter, it has given him a tool to accelerate his quest to explain one of the most fundamental acts of human intelligence: how we listen.

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October 2026 Publications

Recovering Greenland ice loss from sea level fingerprints? Quantum spin modeling? Coercivity-aware machine learning? A selection of recent publications featuring research using computers at the MGHPCC.

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Modeling the Biggest Thing There Is!

In this study, MIT/ ORCD and Harvard/FASRC resources at the MGHPCC were used for the pre-work needed to make effective use of exaflop compute resources at a national lab, as well as post-work needed to share and apply the results.

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Research projects

Supercomputing the Arctic

Tracking Earth's Atmospheric Highways

Social Capital and Economic Mobility

New Insights on Binary Black Holes

Better Pathogen Targeting

Computational Modeling of Biological Systems

Computing the Geometry of Frustration

Dartmouth Chat

All Research Projects

Collaborative projects

MGHPCC and the Northeast Research and Education Network

The US ATLAS Northeast Tier 2 Center

Northeast Storage Exchange

MGHPCC and Northern Crossroads

MGHPCC and Internet2

MGHPCC and the Energy Science Network

MGHPCC and the FABRIC Testbed

MGHPCC and the Campus Research Computing Consortium

ALL Collaborative PROJECTS

OUTREACH & EDUCATION PROJECTS

CSTA - Western MA

Girls Inc. Eureka!

Expanding Computing Education Pathways (ECEP) Alliance

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