Engaging middle school minds in STEM with a bit of HPC Could a facility like the MGHPCC have a role in K-12 education? That is the question that a team from UMass Amherst, MIT and the Holyoke and Springfield middle schools have been investigating. Supported by a joint MIT and UMass Amherst grant from NSF, […]

Holyoke Girls Inc. visits MGHPCC by Helen Hill Girls Inc., is a nationwide nonprofit dedicated to encouraging girls to be "strong, smart, and, bold". The July 19 visit by girls and their mentors from the local Holyoke chapter provided the 8 teens who participated a unique opportunity to learn about the MGHPCC facility as well […]

Construction pictures from the Bigelow Street site As the racks are brought in, arranged, and hooked up to the various cooling, power and data services, the computer room is quickly beginning to take shape. Four hundred cabinets (each the size of a large capacity upright refrigerator) are being grouped into sets of 20, arranged with […]

"Monday, crews were hard at work installing the cabinets that will house the data machines and computers at the facility." Watch a video from NBC Station WWWLP

"Today we received a shipment of 27. That's 27 out of a total of 400 racks that will be delivered for this part of the project," said Sullivan McLaughlin Companies' Construction Foreman Will Tripp. CBS3 Springfield

High Performance Computing Center Touts Energy, Security Innovations. BusinessWest

The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center is designed with features that make it one of the most energy-efficient and environmentally sensitive data centers around.

“Today, we’re approaching the final leg of the project. We’re starting to bring in all the computer cabinets. There’s several hundred of them,” says project manager Van Duros. WGGB-DT 40 Springfield (ABC) / 6 (Fox)

MGHPCC's neighbour: Holyoke's new Arts and Innovation District, features 24 emerging and growing creative and industrial arts businesses and residential developments. Massachusetts Technology Collaborative

The first video in a new series profiling MGHPCC seed fund collaborations by Helen Hill The MGHPCC seed fund is allowing Alfredo Alexander Katz (Material Science, MIT) and Alán Aspuru-Guzik (Quantum Chemistry, Harvard) to combine computational techniques from materials science with computational thinking from quantum chemistry. In this video Alfredo and Alán describe more about […]

MGHPCC collaborator Big Data Informatics Initiative awarded $136,250: President Robert L. Caret today announced nearly $750,000 in grants to faculty members from the President's Science and Technology Initiatives Fund. UMASS News

From his office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, John Goodhue oversees what is widely seen as one of the most important computing operations in the state — one that’s halfway across the state in Holyoke. Boston Business Journal

"With the construction of a new $168 million high-performance computing center in Holyoke, what does it mean for the Paper City?"  WGBY

Construction pictures from the Bigelow Street site The delivery of top-soil to allow for landscaping of the site is a welcome sign as spring gives way to early summer.  Inside the computer room has filled with hot-aisles and cold-aisles, drops and cable tray. Even HG&E's Skinner generator shed  is getting a small facelift. The power is […]

A multi-institutional Massachusetts computer center tests out terascale computing—and the social engineering needed to use it . IEEE Spectrum

Construction pictures from the Bigelow Street site With the exterior essentially complete, the construction story is all about what's going on, on the inside. The chilled water piping that will keep everything cool is spaghetti-ing everywhere along with IT infrastructure and ductwork. In the data hall, the computer switchboards around the perimeter of the space […]

Part II in a series documenting the MGHPCC building by Helen Hill Following on where Under the Hood – Part I: The Ground Floor left off, in this video, the MEP (mechanical, electrical and plumbing) manager for the MGHPCC construction project, Greg Webster (Turner Construction) narrates a second virtual tour of the building, this time […]

Job Corps, a no-cost education and career technical training program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor, helps young people ages 16 through 24 improve the quality of their lives through career technical and academic training. On April 11, a group from Westover Job Corps Center, Chicopee, took a tour of the MGHPCC site.

Going green not just for the enterprise anymore: With little creativity, high performance data centers can rise to the challenge and attain a low carbon footprint while minimizing costs. SearchDataCenter

Construction pictures from the Bigelow Street site What a difference a few windows make? While most of the MGHPCC facility is window-free, the view from the administrative wing above the main entrance is a gem,  looking out towards City Hall and downtown Holyoke, just a couple of blocks away. We're also getting a Spring site-makeover, […]