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November 10, 2011
Clean Energy Innovations Workshop

120 participants from around the country attended the Holyoke Clean Energy Innovation Workshop intended to lay the groundwork for collaborative approaches to test bed development for next generation, smart energy technology.

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November 6, 2011
Visions for Economic Rebound Face Tough Odds - Western Mass. Hopes Computing Center Will be the Catalyst for a Turn Around

Boston Globe

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October 26, 2011
Holyoke Computing Center Gets $14.5M From Mass. Development

Mass High Tech

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October 17, 2011
Holyoke $168 Million High Performance Computing Center Taking Shape at the Canals

Springfield Republican

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October 14, 2011
Holyoke, Old Mill Town, Hosts Idea Mill Featuring Robot-Maker and Other Innovators

Springfield Republican

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October 9, 2011
Mass. Schools Team up for Supercomputer Center

Boston Globe/ Associated Press

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September 14, 2011
Patrick-Murray Administration, University Leaders Celebrate Federal Grant to Help UMass Amherst, MIT Scientists Bring Power of Cloud Computing to Holyoke, Springfield Public Schools

UMass Amherst

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August 31, 2011
Seed Fund RFP 2011

The 2011 MGHPCC Seed Fund RFP is soliciting research proposals for computer and computational science. Pre-proposals are due October 1st, 2011. A total of $500K is available with anticipated award sizes in the range of $50K - $150K. Proposals must involve investigators from two or more of Boston University, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University and […]

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August 31, 2011
Holyoke Seen as Benefitting From $1.2 Million Federal Grant for Hydro-Power Upgrades at Computing Center

Springfield Republican

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August 24, 2011
U.S. Commerce Department Awards $2.1 Million to Advance Business Development in Holyoke, MA Innovation District

U.S. Economic Development Administration

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August 23, 2011
Thrift in Store for U.S. Research

Nature

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July 25, 2011
Institute Hosts New England Faculty Summit on Cyber Security

Boston University, June 28, 2011, Faculty from the five MGHPCC universities and other institutions gather for a New England Faculty Summit on Cybersecurity to discuss the possibility (and next steps) for setting up a regional academic consortium on Cyber Security research and education.

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June 15, 2011
Demolition Continues

Demolition continues as the last buildings at the Bigelow Street site come down. MGHPCC News

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May 10, 2011
Holyoke Computing Center Site Demolition Gets Going With Contractor J.R. Vinagro Chewing Away

Springfield Republican

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May 9, 2011
Demolition Begins

  Demolition began Monday on one of the two buildings that will be coming down at the Bigelow Street site of the future high performance computing center. MGHPCC News

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April 18, 2011
Holyoke G&E Manager James Lavelle Says High Performance Computing Center will Begin to Take Shape with Building Demolition

Springfield Republican

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February 12, 2011
Permitting

Review begins of plans for the building and site with Holyoke city agencies, including fire, police, planning board, environemental, and historical commissions. Following constructive feedback from the City on mamy aspects of the building and site design, all of the permits needed to start construction are now in place. MGHPCC News

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December 12, 2010
Preliminary Design Completed

The preliminary design is completed, implementing the original vision of a facility with a 15 megawatt power feed and 90,300 square feet of space - enough to house a quarter-million processors with today's technology. MGHPCC News

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October 7, 2010
Governor Deval Patrick MGHPCC Video

ICTcenter.org

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October 6, 2010
Construction Begins on High Performance Computing Center

MIT News

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Research projects

Foldit
Dusty With a Chance of Star Formation
Checking the Medicine Cabinet to Interrupt COVID-19 at the Molecular Level
Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold But Still, Is It Just Right?​
Smashing Discoveries​
Microbiome Pattern Hunting
Modeling the Air we Breathe
Exploring Phytoplankton Diversity
The Computer Will See You Now
Computing the Toll of Trapped Diamondback Terrapins
Edging Towards a Greener Future
Physics-driven Drug Discovery
Modeling Plasma-Surface Interactions
Sensing Subduction Zones
Neural Networks & Earthquakes
Small Stars, Smaller Planets, Big Computing
Data Visualization using Climate Reanalyzer
Getting to Grips with Glassy Materials
Modeling Molecular Engines
Forest Mapping: When the Budworms come to Dinner
Exploring Thermoelectric Behavior at the Nanoscale
The Trickiness of Talking to Computers
A Genomic Take on Geobiology
From Grass to Gas
Teaching Computers to Identify Odors
From Games to Brains
The Trouble with Turbulence
A New Twist
A Little Bit of This... A Little Bit of That..
Looking Like an Alien!
Locking Up Computing
Modeling Supernovae
Sound Solution
Lessons in a Virtual Test Tube​
Crack Computing
Automated Real-time Medical Imaging Analysis
Towards a Smarter Greener Grid
Heading Off Head Blight
Organic Light-Harvesting Antennae
Art and AI
Excited by Photons
Tapping into an Ocean of Data
Computing Global Change
Star Power
Engineering the Human Microbiome
Computing Social Capital
Computers Diagnosing Disease
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