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About the MGHPCC

The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) is an intercollegiate high-performance computing facility. It is a joint venture of Boston University, Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, the University of Massachusetts system and Yale.

Located in Holyoke, MA

90 miles west of Boston, computing and storage resources at the MGHPCC data center serve a user community of more than 20,000 faculty and student researchers and educators, supported by on-campus research teams.

Millions of Virtual Experiments Monthly 

Resources housed at the MGHPCC enable its users to perform millions of virtual experiments each month advancing understanding in societally important areas such as Climate, Energy, Medicine, Materials, Health, Space, and Computing.
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Use our Facilities

As a regional data center for research and education, the MGHPCC is a resource open to all.
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Green Design

Detailed attention to maximizing energy efficiency while minimizing negative environmental impacts allowed the MGHPCC to become the first university research data center ever to achieve LEED Platinum Certification. 
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Collaborative Projects

The MGHPCC was built to enable the five member institutions to share building infrastructure (space, power, and cooling), but once they were under the same roof, cross-consortium collaboration started to happen on a regular basis.
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Education and Outreach

Consistent with the broadening participation goals of its founding members, the MGHPCC is an active participant in multiple local, regional, and national education and outreach initiatives.
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Research projects

A Future of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Yale Budget Lab
Volcanic Eruptions Impact on Stratospheric Chemistry & Ozone
The Rhode Island Coastal Hazards Analysis, Modeling, and Prediction System
Towards a Whole Brain Cellular Atlas
Tornado Path Detection
The Kempner Institute – Unlocking Intelligence
The Institute for Experiential AI
Taming the Energy Appetite of AI Models
Surface Behavior
Studying Highly Efficient Biological Solar Energy Systems
Software for Unreliable Quantum Computers
Simulating Large Biomolecular Assemblies
SEQer – Sequence Evaluation in Realtime
Revolutionizing Materials Design with Computational Modeling
Remote Sensing of Earth Systems
QuEra at the MGHPCC
Quantum Computing in Renewable Energy Development
Pulling Back the Quantum Curtain on ‘Weyl Fermions’
New Insights on Binary Black Holes
NeuraChip
Network Attached FPGAs in the OCT
Monte Carlo eXtreme (MCX) – a Physically-Accurate Photon Simulator
Modeling Hydrogels and Elastomers
Modeling Breast Cancer Spread
Measuring Neutrino Mass
Investigating Mantle Flow Through Analyses of Earthquake Wave Propagation
Impact of Marine Heatwaves on Coral Diversity
IceCube: Hunting Neutrinos
Genome Forecasting
Global Consequences of Warming-Induced Arctic River Changes
Fuzzing the Linux Kernel
Exact Gravitational Lensing by Rotating Black Holes
Evolution of Viral Infectious Disease
Evaluating Health Benefits of Stricter US Air Quality Standards
Ephemeral Stream Water Contributions to US Drainage Networks
Energy Transport and Ultrafast Spectroscopy Lab
Electron Heating in Kinetic-Alfvén-Wave Turbulence
Discovering Evolution’s Master Switches
Dexterous Robotic Hands
Developing Advanced Materials for a Sustainable Energy Future
Detecting Protein Concentrations in Assays
Denser Environments Cultivate Larger Galaxies
Deciphering Alzheimer’s Disease
Dancing Frog Genomes
Cyber-Physical Communication Network Security
Avoiding Smash Hits
Analyzing the Gut Microbiome
Adaptive Deep Learning Systems Towards Edge Intelligence
Accelerating Rendering Power
ACAS X: A Family of Next-Generation Collision Avoidance Systems
Neurocognition at the Wu Tsai Institute, Yale
Computational Modeling of Biological Systems
Computational Molecular Ecology
Social Capital and Economic Mobility
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Collaborative projects

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Outreach & Education Projects

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