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.

MGHPCC receives grant from Community Foundation of Western Mass. to create summer camp experience combining watersports and computer programing

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.

Ideas and Planning for Research Computing at Boston area Universities, Institutes, Hospitals and Companies HPC Futures is a one day exploration of ideas and planning for future computational research at the Boston area universities, institutes, hospitals, libraries and companies. Future needs may be driven both by ambitious research goals, by increasing needs to work across […]

Four graduating high school seniors were awarded scholarships of $4,000 each from the MGHPCC.

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.

Teens from Girls Incorporated Holyoke, in association with educators from Holyoke Codes, a community organization run out of the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center., have built an app to tackle bullying. Read and listen to this story at New England Public Radio

Code Week is a project to bring a coding and robotics experience to all seventh grade students in the Holyoke Public School system. Each of the seventh graders in Holyoke have a week with 4 field trips to the classroom at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center. 

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

Dr. Saritha Nellutla is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Sciences at Bridgewater State University (BSU) in Bridgewater MA. She uses the C3DDB cluster housed at the MGHPCC in her teaching.

By Helen Hill for MGHPCC The potential for loss of property and life, has made earthquake forecasting and prediction an active area of research for statisticians and earth scientists. While it is not currently possible to make deterministic predictions of when and where earthquakes will happen, new techniques like those recently reported by the Meade […]

May 25, 2017 UMass Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Road North Dartmouth, MA 9am – 6pm Free registration, poster abstract submission and more details at: cscvr.umassd.edu/HPCday On May 25, UMass Dartmouth will be hosting “HPC Day 2017”  — a conference to showcase computationally intensive research by scientists from all over Massachusetts.   The conference is being […]

Holyoke, Massachusetts – Holyoke Codes has expanded their computer science and technology workshops for students in the Holyoke Public Schools.  This year all eighth-grade students are included in the experience, engaging in robotics projects.   Last year, the program consisted of a seven-week hands-on coding experience that was available to the nearly 400, seventh-grade students in […]

Story by Helen Hill for MGHPCC Mark Veyette is a PhD student at Boston University studying Astronomy. His research focuses on characterizing low mass stars and the exoplanets that orbit them. In particular, he studies the composition of M dwarf stars and how that relates to the types of planets that form around them.

AMHERST, Mass. – With a new cluster of specialized graphics processing units (GPUs) now installed at the MGHPCC, the University of Massachusetts Amherst is poised to attract the nation’s next crop of top Ph.D. students and researchers in such fields as artificial intelligence, computer vision and natural language processing, says associate professor Erik Learned-Miller of […]