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.

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

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.

The Harvard Office for Sustainability has awarded the Harvard project team for the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center a Green Carpet Award.

Following up on the announcement earlier this week that using the BICEP2 telescope (coupled to MGHPCC!!) researchers now have the first strong evidence of “cosmic inflation” at the birth of our universe, MIT physicist Alan Guth explains how these new results bolster his 1980 theory of cosmic inflation.

From ResearchNext the Research Digest of UMass Amherst UMass Amherst computer scientist Prashant Shenoy and electrical and computer engineer David Irwin are leading a team of researchers focused on analyzing smart meters and other tools that could transform the way energy is utilized, monitored, and controlled in America’s buildings, which currently comprise 75% of the […]

Kennedy is slated to host the quarterly meeting of the STEM council March 3, 2014 at the Massachusetts Green High-Performance Computing Center on Cabot and Bigelow streets. Following the meeting, Kennedy will tour the STEM Diversity Institute at the UMass Amherst Life Science Laboratories. The STEM Diversity Institute focuses on expanding opportunities for under-represented minorities […]

Massachusetts ranked fourth last year among states with the most LEED-certified green buildings, according to the U.S. Green Building Council.

As part of January activities at MIT and at Harvard, two sets of classes brought students onto the MGHPCC systems to learn about computing technologies and about research areas that employ them.

Availability for lease or sale announced of MGHPCC next door neighbor, 230,000-square-foot brick-and-beam industrial green complex at 195 Appleton Street. boston.com

An unusual cross-section of leaders convened at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston on Wednesday to celebrate the Working Cities Challenge, a community development initiative for Massachusetts’ smaller cities. At the event were state officials including the Governor, members of the philanthropic community, Fed officials, private sector leaders, and representatives of city government, nonprofits, and […]

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston will inject $1.8 million into six struggling Massachusetts cities, among them Holyoke home of MGHPCC, as part of its first-ever effort to transform urban neighborhoods by encouraging local officials to work more creatively with businesses and nonprofit groups. Boston Globe

Story by Helen Hill for MGHPCC MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change (JPSPGC) seeks to combine scientific research on changes to land, air, and water with innovative policy analysis to confront the global climate challenge. Underpinning their scientific research efforts are complex computer models of many kinds, models that until […]

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.”