The Commonwealth Information Technology Initiative (CITI) sponsors a Green High Performance Computing Educators’ Conference at Holyoke Community College.

Following their  workshop in April, the Commonwealth Information Technology Initiative (CITI) sponsored the Green High Performance Computing Educators’ Conference held May 25, 2010 at HCC. A direct outcome of the workshop was the establishment of the C4 Project — Canals & Computers, Community & Collaboration — a collaboration among the GHPCC partners; Five Colleges, Inc. Community Based Learning and Public School Partnership programs; the “5+2 colleges,” (Amherst College, Hampshire College, Holyoke Community College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Springfield Technical Community College and the University of Massachusetts); the Commonwealth Alliance for IT Education (CAITE); Holyoke Public Schools; Girls Inc.; Boys & Girls Club; FIRST Robotics; Nuestras Raices; Enlace de Familia; Hamden Regional Employment Board; and Hamden-Hamp- shire TechPrep. The C4 Project would open a facility at the Picknelly Center and move to the GHPCC when it opens.