The world is in the midst of a data revolution. In response the five universities that form the MGHPCC consortium have each initiated a new data science institute, initiative or program, but how and where to store all that big data? The Northeast Storage Exchange (NESE) is a shared regional storage resource funded by the National Science Foundation which aims to do just that. Continue reading Big Data. Monster Storage: The Northeast Storage Exchange
By Helen Hill for MGHPCC News
The MGHPCC Supercloud, operated by MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center (LLSC) is a facility intended to be of particular use to people who need to transition from their desktop workstation to a high performance computing cluster in order to solve larger or more complex problems, but do not have the time to gain in-depth specialized knowledge about parallelizing application software, running batch jobs, optimizing startup times for large collections of simultaneous jobs, and other details that end users must otherwise master in a Linux cluster environment.
President of Boston University and Chair of the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center writing today in the Boston Business Journal.
Continue reading Viewpoint: High-performance computing center is asset worth recognizing
The Computer Science Teachers Association Western Mass chapter hosted a free workshop for teachers on Microsoft MakeCode for Minecraft on December 15 at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center. Continue reading Teaching Computer Science Using Minecraft
Holyoke Codes ran a Cyber Security Workshop for Girls Inc. on Saturday, December 8th, 2018 for Computer Science Education Week. The workshop was attended by 21 middle school aged girls, members of The Girls Inc. Eureka Program Rookies group. Eureka! Scholars spend time on the UMass Amherst campus and elsewhere, experiencing lab-based activities in science, technology, engineering, and math.
The girls learned about digital forensics and cybersecurity with topics such as cryptography, steganography, passwords, and privacy to solve a mystery in a Capture the Flag (CTF) contest. The CTF contest was custom created by Prof. Beryl Hoffman and her Elms College Computer Information Technology students for Holyoke Codes. The contest uses a series of challenges involving cybersecurity concepts to solve the mystery of a kidnapped cat (for a demo, login with team name: test, password: test). Three new challenges were added this year, including one on Dr. Azer Bestavros’ research project on Additive Secret Sharing.
Support for the event was provided by the National Science Foundation CISE SaTC Frontier Award #1414119 to Boston University, entitled MACS: A Modular Approach to Cloud Security.
This experience will also be available via Holyoke Codes workshops open to the public at no charge (www.holyokecodes.org).
With the closure of Holyoke’s Paper City Brewing in 2017, the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center and its neighbors are excited to welcome a new small batch brewing company to Race Street.
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by Helen Hill | MGHPCC News
MGHPCC affiliated teams from Northeastern University and UMass Boston battle for cluster building supremacy at annual HPC competition. Continue reading Cluster Racing at SC18
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A Q&A about the new research computing Q&A tool being developed in collaboration with the MGHPCC Continue reading The New Research Computing Q&A: Ask.CI
Voting for most useful posts will be used to improve, increase awareness of research tool Continue reading “Ask” Q&A for Scientific Researchers to be Demonstrated at Prestigious SC18 Conference
Organized by Lincoln Laboratories, and with sponsorship this year from IBM, Cray, DELL EMC, Hewlett Packard, Intel Corp, MITRE, and NVIDIA, HPEC ‘19, was held September 25th to 27th, 2018.
