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January 16, 2015
The 14 Best Startup Cities in America

The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center cited as a factor in making the City of Holyoke fertile ground for startups. Read this story in Popular Mechanics

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December 20, 2014
Holyoke Codes

Along with local partners NERDs (New England Regional Developers), Girls Inc. of Holyoke and the Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education (CAITE), the MGHPCC participated in Computer Science Education Week, December 8 – 14, 2014.

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November 23, 2014
What Universities Can Do About Climate Change

President of Harvard, Drew Gilpin Faust, cites their institution's  involvement in the MGHPCC as exemplifying  universities taking the lead in "piloting and modeling effective operational practices" in combatting climate change. Read his story in the Huffington Post

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November 4, 2014
CNS Boosts Research and Community via High Performance Computing

UMass Amherst, College of Natural Sciences blogger Steve Goodwin is excited about the kind of research that high performance computing at the MGHPCC makes possible. Read this story in the cns.umass.edu blog

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October 21, 2014
Holyoke company VertitechIT announces deal with Baystate Health to manage new data system

MGHPCC contributes to making Holyoke a tech-friendly place according to new neighbor VertitechIT. Read this story at masslive.com

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September 27, 2014
NSF Selects UMass Prof. James Kurose to Head Computer & Information Science & Engineering Directorate

From nsf.gov Jim Kurose to head the National Science Foundation's Computer & Information Science & Engineering Directorate.

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September 23, 2014
BU receives NSF grant to develop 'smart city' cloud platform

Boston University's Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering today announced it has received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a "smart-city" cloud platform designed to streamline and strengthen multiple municipal functions. Read the complete story at phys.org

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September 12, 2014
Planning for the Pioneer Valley

Pioneer Valley, Springfield, business leaders push education, access, marketing in Plan for Progress update. Read this story in the Springfield Republican.

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September 9, 2014
The Innovators

A listing of the cutting-edge technologies that are putting Massachusetts on the map put MGHPCC top of its list of the MA innovators 

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August 28, 2014
Scientists teach enterprises how to process big data

Research data center scientists are the cowboys of the computing world, but the research computing IT architecture has carry-over potential into enterprises grappling with how to process big data. Meredith Courtemanche explains... Read this story at searchdatacenter.com

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August 6, 2014
Securing the Cloud

This story originally appeared in BU Today The Modular Approach to Cloud Security (MACS) project will use the Massachusetts Open Cloud based at MGHPCC as a testbed.

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August 6, 2014
Viewpoint: Holyoke is the Green city of the future

The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) helped make Massachusetts the fourth-greenest state for building last year... Mayor Morse and Richard F. Sullivan reflect on the greening of their city. Read this story at MassLive.com

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July 2, 2014
Rack Cooling, Workload Management Tools Fight Hotspots

Read this story at TechTarget.com Hotspots are a pain in the CRAC, leading some data centers to implement source-of-heat cooling and software tools that redistribute workloads across servers. MGHPCC is in the vanguard.

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May 29, 2014
Reinventing Holyoke

Read this story by Alex Morse and Greg Bialecki in the Boston Globe. Mayor of Holyoke Alex Morse and Massachusetts Housing and Economic Development secretary Greg Bialecki reflect on efforts to revitalize Holyoke, a central component of which is the development of the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center and the Holyoke Innovation District.

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May 19, 2014
2014 EBEE Awards

The Environmental Business Council of New England Announces Environmental and Energy Industry Winners of the 21st Annual EBEE Awards.

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April 30, 2014
Open Cloud Test Bed Bolsters Big Data Innovation

On Friday, in the Western Massachusetts town of Holyoke, Governor Deval Patrick and officials from industry, government and academia joined together for the official launch of a $3 million capital investment, known as the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) project. Read this story at HPCwire

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April 29, 2014
Governor Patrick Announces Funding to Launch Massachusetts Open Cloud Project, Celebrates Release of 2014 MASS Big Data Report

Governor's Press Release

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April 25, 2014
Gov. Deval Patrick at Holyoke computing center launches $3 million investment in 'cloud' innovation

HOLYOKE -- Gov. Deval L. Patrick said here Friday the state will invest $3 million in launching a public "cloud" computing project for data storage and innovation. The state's money will be matched $16 million from universities and private companies, he said, at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center on Bigelow Street.

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April 10, 2014
Holyoke Gas and Electric customers could net savings from ongoing meter study involving high performance computing center

A pilot project by UMass Amherst researchers led by Professor Prashant Shanoy, using high performance computing to analyze detailed usage records from tens of thousands of smart meters installed in and around Holyoke, could help lead to lower domestic electricity costs. Read this story at masslive.com

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April 1, 2014
Data Sciences for the Life Sciences

From ResearchNext the Research Digest of UMass Amherst Statistical, life science, and social science researchers gathered for a workshop on “Data Sciences for the Life Sciences in a High Performance Computing Environment” in February: the first formal opportunity for the researchers to learn how to effectively utilize the MGHPCC facility.

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