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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 Little Bit of This… A Little Bit of That..
The Trickiness of Talking to Computers
Locking Up Computing
Excited by Photons
Heading Off Head Blight
The Trouble with Turbulence
The Computer Will See You Now
Dusty With a Chance of Star Formation
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Collaborative projects

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Outreach & Education Projects

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