HOLYOKE — In celebration of Computer Science Education Week, Dec. 9 through 15, about 50 local girls are expected to learn how to break the code of computer programming Wednesday. Read this story at the Daily Hampshire Gazette
HOLYOKE — In celebration of Computer Science Education Week, Dec. 9 through 15, about 50 local girls are expected to learn how to break the code of computer programming Wednesday. Read this story at the Daily Hampshire Gazette
Story by Helen Hill for MGHPCC Supercomputing 2013 (SC13), the international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis, took place in Denver CO, November 17-22, 2013.
Read this story at the Springfield Republican. The high performance computing center downtown has received a top grade for being environmentally friendly. The U.S. Green Building Council, a nonprofit organization, has given the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, as it is officially known, its highest rating of platinum certification, officials said this week.
The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) a new computer research facility located in Holyoke, MA and shared by five area universities including MIT, was granted LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum certification on October 29, according to the MIT News Office. Read this story in The Tech
Building co-designed by MIT becomes first university research data center nationwide to earn LEED Platinum certification. MIT News
Silicon Mechanics announced that it is sponsoring the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) in the Student Cluster Competition at the SC13 Conference & Exhibition, taking place November 17-22, 2013, in Denver, CO.
Holyoke, October 29, 2013 – Dignitaries and team members came together at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center facility to mark MGHPCC’s LEED® Platinum Certification from U.S. Green Building Council “First Academic Research Computing Center to Receive Highest Green Certification Level.”
The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) has become the first university research data center to receive a LEED® Platinum certification, the highests green building ranking. The MGHPCC is also one of only 13 data centers in the country to receive a Platinum certification. Computing centers are typically large users of energy.
A computing facility co-founded by Harvard and four other universities in Massachusetts uses outside air to chill its computers, 25 percent recycled content in its building materials, and a hydroelectric power source—features that have earned it national recognition for sustainable design. Read this article in the Harvard Crimson.
The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center in Holyoke is now the first university research data center in the country to earn a LEED platinum certification, the highest rating a building can receive from the US Green Building Council. Only a dozen other data centers have achieved the same status. Read this story from the […]
MGHPCC Gets LEED Platinum MGHPCC Press Release
Linking Holyoke’s past and future, city officials and the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) today unveiled a gearwheel used to power a mill located on the MGHPCC site 140 years ago. The exhibit, located outside the entrance to the data center, also includes an interpretive panel explaining the role of water power in […]
"Green" datacenter design moves upstream to supercomputing setups. slashdot.org
Late this summer, when Lincoln Laboratory scientists and engineers log onto their interactive parallel computing cluster, LLGrid, they will be connecting to MGHPCC 90 miles away in Holyoke, Mass., former textile-manufacturing hub on the Connecticut River. Read this story by Dorothy Ryan, Lincoln Laboratory at MIT News.
Forward looking on-demand life science system, aims to boost regional industry academia collaborations around data driven biology and in life science innovation. Read this story by Naila Moreira in the Boston Globe.
Story by Helen Hill for MGHPCC An MGHPCC seed fund award allowed Professor Pierre Lermusiaux and collaborators to develop multi-scale models of the marine environment off the New England coast designed to talk to one-another and interface with real-time observations.
EMC Corporation Chairman and CEO Joseph M. Tucci said Friday at Northeastern’s CEO Breakfast Forum that businesses’ future success will be increasingly defined by how they innovate and take advantage of opportunities presented by information technology’s transformation. According to Tucci, society’s growing reliance on mobile devices and digital resources has led to a tectonic shift […]
read this story at news@Northeastern 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 research center in Holyoke, Mass., and chairperson of MGHPCC Holyoke Inc., its nonprofit affiliate. He will succeed Tom Chmura in […]
From the Boston Globe series ON THE HOT SEAT by Michael B. Farrell Read this story at boston.com
