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April 25, 2022
MGHPCC Part of Team Reimagining CI User Support

NSF-Funded $10 Million MATCH Project Will Ensure CI Support Services Keep Pace with Academic Scientific Research

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April 22, 2022
MATCH Launches

MATCH (Multi-tier Assistance, Training & Computational Help) is a new approach to providing cost-effective scaled support to the broad scientific community using national cyberinfrastructure.

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March 3, 2022
Star Power

MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) doctoral graduate Francesco Sciortino has been leaning on MGHPCC computers in his research seeking to bring the process that fuels the stars down to Earth.

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February 10, 2022
Open Cloud Testbed Tutorial: Using FPGAs in OCT

Register now for this March 8 online tutorial  from the Ocean Cloud Testbed team.

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January 25, 2022
MOC, NERC go to the EDUCAUSE NERCOMP Conference

MGHPCC affiliates to share how lessons learned through the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) initiative, are being leveraged to develop the New England Research Cloud (NERC.)

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January 24, 2022
LLSC Celebrates 5th Anniversary

The Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center (LLSC) celebrates five years of its mission to enhance the computing power available to the Laboratory, MIT, and other researchers.

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November 22, 2021
UMass Amherst Boosts Deep Learning Research with Powerful New GPU Cluster

New GPU cluster, housed at the MGHPCC, will support artificial intelligence, computer vision and natural language processing research and education.

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November 18, 2021
URI partners with the Massachusetts Green HPC Center

As first partner outside Mass., collaboration set to advance research computing in the region

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November 15, 2021
MGHPCC Co-leads Two Birds of a Feather Sessions at SC21

Sessions, taking place at SC21 through November 19, will explore strategies to increase HPC access and collaboration.

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August 2, 2021
UMass Amherst-led Team Awarded $3M Grant to Decarbonize Computing

CarbonFirst collaboration, led by CICS Distinguished Professor Prashant Shenoy, aims for zero-carbon computing, will use MGHPCC to demonstrate concept.

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July 21, 2021
Accelerating Science from Idea to Publication with Bold National Research Platform

MGHPCC among three computing centers participating in an NSF award supporting nationwide cyberinfrastructure.

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July 20, 2021
Paper Outlines Expansion of Cyber-infrastructure Portal

Connect.Cyberinfrastructure.org submission selected as Best Short Paper for Workforce Development, Training, Diversity and Education Track by PEARC21.

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July 6, 2021
Mayor Announces Recipients of MGHPCC Scholarships

Annual award to Holyoke High School students tops $75k.

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May 13, 2021
Holyoke's Utility Takes Leadership Role in Green Energy

The MGHPCC is located inHolyoke, in large part, because of the low-cost, green energy available there. Business West reports on the green credentials of their electricity supplier, HG&E.

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March 1, 2016
New England’s First Experimental, Solar-Powered Data Center

Located in the grounds of the MGHPCC, “Mass Net Zero Data Center” will facilitate research into minimizing environmental impact of high energy-using computer centers.

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January 2, 2016
Up in the Air

Chien Wang is a senior research scientist in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT associated with MIT’s Center for Global Change Science and the Joint Program in the Science and Policy of Global Change. Wang and his group develop and use complex computer models housed at the Massachusetts Green High Performance […]

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November 10, 2015
Looking Like an Alien!

Observing Saturn as an Extrasolar Planet, One Ray of Light at a Time Story by Paul A. Dalba, for MGHPCC What would Saturn, the beautiful ringed planet, look like to an alien species on a distant planet? This question is of particular interest to astronomers who study planets that exist far beyond our solar system […]

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March 31, 2015
Locking Up Computing

Designing Secure Computer Systems Story by Helen Hill for MGHPCC In this video meet computer architect Srini Devedas (MIT) who is using MGHPCC to meld secure architecture with secure compiler and operating system software, to protect data from the ground up.

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October 17, 2014
Excited by Photons?

Modeling electron excitation in organic photovoltaic materials Story by Helen Hill for MGHPCC In this video meet theoretical chemist Adam Willard (MIT) using MGHPCC to better understand molecular level behavior of organic photovoltaic materials.

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May 22, 2014
Crack Computing

Story by Helen Hill for MGHPCC In this video meet seed-fund collaborators Markus Buehler (MIT) and Alain Karma (Northeastern) who use multiscale modeling to explore and test how biological materials like bone or nacre can, despite their apparent fragility, resist breakage.

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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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