Pushing performance through computer architecture and algorithm development. By Helen Hill for MGHPCC David Kaeli heads the Northeastern University Computer Architecture Research (NUCAR) Laboratory, a group focused on the performance and design of high-performance computer systems and software.

Participants Invited to Name Platform Designed for Academic Researchers.

Event featured speakers from NSF, research and educational leaders across the region.

AMHERST, Mass. – Geoscientist Haiying Gao, a seismologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, recently received a five-year, $525,800 faculty early career development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to model and compare five subduction zones across the globe where large earthquakes have occurred, for the first time characterizing their fundamental differences and […]

by Helen Hill for MGHPCC A team from the University of Maine uses a Northeast Cyberteam Program  seed grant to upgrade a public climate data visualisation tool developed at the U Maine Climate Change Institute.

The Northeast Research and Education Network's Spring 2018 seminar was held April 6 at Markley's One Summer Street, Boston, MA location.

Originating in May 2017, the Northeast Cyberteam Initiative is a 3-year NSF-funded effort to build a regional pool of Research Computing Facilitators to support researchers at small and mid-sized institutions in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont. In this video, executive director John Goodhue discusses the program. Read this story at MassLive

Paul Whitford is an assistant professor of physics at Northeastern University. He uses high performance computing to study the dynamics of biological systems to understand the physical principles that govern the dynamics of cells.

The technical committee of the 2018 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC ’18 to be held in the Greater Boston Area, Massachusetts, USA, 25 – 27 September, 2018) seeks new presentations.

Two Massachusetts teams, one from Northeastern and one comprising students from UMass Boston and UMass Lowell, participated in this year's  SC17 Student Cluster Competition in Denver in November.

by Helen Hill for MGHPCC Motivated by an eastern spruce budworm outbreak traveling down from Canada, researchers in the School of Forest Resources at the University of Maine and colleagues in the U Maine Advanced Computing Group, catalyzed by a seed grant from the Northeast Cyberteam Program, have been applying machine learning techniques to map […]

Since its beginnings in1998, HPEC (the High Performance Extreme Computing Conference) has grown to become an annual fixture of the September High Performance Computing (HPC) calendar. Now the largest computing conference in New England and the premier conference in the world on the convergence of high performance and embedded computing, HPEC was originally hosted at […]

NEREN Seminar “Bridging the Gap -- Advancing Regional Collaboration and Research IT Collaboration” Sponsored by Intel, Red River and Vast Data

by Helen Hill for MGHPCC Zlatan Aksamija, an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, uses computers at the MGHPCC to carry out nanomolecular materials modeling experiments exploring the thermoelectric behavior of materials for use in energy applications.

by Helen Hill for MGHPCC Billed as “a one day exploration of ideas and planning for future computational research at Boston area universities, institutes, hospitals, libraries and companies” the HPC Futures conference, held on June 30th at the Cambridge Hyatt Regency, shone a spotlight on the uniquely rich local high performance computing landscape much of […]

by Helen Hill for MGHPCC James Glass is a senior research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Glass leads the Spoken Language Systems Group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL.) His research is focused on automatic speech recognition, unsupervised speech processing, and spoken language understanding. This past spring, assisted by graduate student […]

NSF-Funded Project Aims to Strengthen Regional Innovation Economy by Supporting Computationally Intensive Research at Small- and Medium-Sized Institutions

UMass Dartmouth's Center for Scientific Computing & Visualization Research (CSCVR) organizes and hosts "HPC Day 2017" on May 25th.

By Helen Hill for MGHPCC Researchers in Greg Fournier's Geobiology Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), are using the MGHPCC facility in work seeking to calibrate the ancient history of life on Earth using the ultra youthful tool of genomic analysis.

Data Science Research Symposium highlights innovative research and industry collaboration. Read this story at UMassAmherst News