November 1, the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) hosted a party to showcase projects from “Family Creative learning”, a workshop series developed at MIT, for children and parents to learn together — as designers and inventors — through the use of creative technologies.

Observing Saturn as an Extrasolar Planet, One Ray of Light at a Time Story by Paul A. Dalba, for MGHPCC What would Saturn, the beautiful ringed planet, look like to an alien species on a distant planet? This question is of particular interest to astronomers who study planets that exist far beyond our solar system […]

Across Harvard, programs and researchers are mining vast quantities of computerized information, sometimes revolutionizing their fields in the process. A recent article in the Harvard Gazette spotlights the power and potential of Harvard researchers work using its MGHPCC based Odyssey cluster. Read this story in the Harvard Gazette

MIT-MGHPCC user Adam Willard models electron excitation in organic photovoltaic material could change the future of solar energy. Read this story at MIT News

BusinessWest.com spotlights calls out MGHPCC’s role in the restoration of Holyoke’s economy through the arts, technology, and green business. Read this story at business west.com 

Members of the region’s vibrant research computing and cyberinfrastructure community, spanning academia, non-profit and for profit enterprises, came together for a conversation on future directions in research computing and cyberinfrastructure in the US northeast (ME, NH, VT, MA, CT, RI, NY, PA, NJ) at a workshop held at the Westin Hotel, Waltham, MA, on September […]

As the MGHPCC approaches its 3rd birthday,  Springfield Republican writer Mike Pleasance reflects on the myriad high performance computing projects the 100 Bigelow Street center is facilitating. Read this story at masslive.com

Join a conversation on future directions in research computing and cyberinfrastructure in the US northeast (ME, NH, VT, MA, CT, RI, NY, PA, NJ), Westin Hotel, Waltham, MA on September 15th, 8:30AM – 4:30PM.

While children play, teachers work: It may still have been the summer vacation, but to prepare them to offer a new introductory computer science class to their students beginning this fall, teachers from a dozen area high schools attended a week long professional development workshop at MGHPCC in early August.

The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center together with Clemson University Cyberinfrastructure Technology Integration (CITI) Group and Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) is organizing an Intel Xeon Phi Training Workshop on Stampede supercomputer. The workshop will be hosted at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center on Monday, September 21 and Tuesday September 22, 2015, […]

On July 8th, 2015 girls in the Girls Inc. Eureka! program spent the day at the MGHPCC exploring big data and technology integration. Working with UMass professors Li-Jun Ma and Hans Johnston and MGHPCC I.T. technical lead James Culbert, girls toured the MGHPCC to learn about the data center, the power of the technology and […]

Parents and teachers explore concepts in robotics and programming at a workshop aimed at familiarizing parents and educators with concepts in computer programming. Read this story in the Boston Globe

The Academic Technology Group at UMass Lowell hosted two general discussion sessions on the Lowell campus during the month of July which were open to all faculty. These sessions included a general overview of what MGHPCC is and the resources it can provide to our researchers. In total we had 26 researchers and students participate. […]

Holyoke, Massachusetts, June 30, 2015 – Holyoke Mayor Alex B. Morse today announced the recipients of 9 scholarship awards to Holyoke Public School students, totaling $30,800, from three programs sponsored by the Massachusetts Green High Computing Center (MGHPCC) and the Comcast Leaders and Achievers Program. MGHPCC Press Release

Story by Helen Hill for MGHPCC FloDesign Sonics is using MGHPCC to understand micron sized particles’ movement inside 3D acoustic fields. Such types of calculations involve solving trajectories of tens of thousands of particles and their effect on the flow field along with particle-particle collisions. Due to the complex nature of such computations, a supercomputer […]

Li-Jun Ma, a University of Massachusetts Amherst biochemist and genomics expert, and an MGHPCC seed fund awardee, has received a coveted five-year, $500,000 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease award to develop new treatment options for opportunistic fungal infections. Read more at phys.org

Added value of joint initiatives, such as the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) project, cited as sources of potential for Sates beyond simple cost savings. In the words of Azer Bestavros, director of the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering at Boston University, “Just as a shopping mall provides a shared […]

The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) is the centerpiece of Harvard’s commitment to Green IT. Read all about why in Harvard’s Green IT Strategy White Paper

Florence Sullivan, an associate professor in the College of Education at UMass Amherst uses microgenetic analysis (an in-depth way of analyzing the behavior of a system as it evolves) to study student creativity in technologically complex learning environments. She is particularly interested in the development of creative ideas in small groups working with constructionist technologies. […]

Ahead of the Climate Conference in Paris later this year, roadtoparis.info is providing important background  on science, policy and economics. In this article, Niven Winchester, an MIT environmental economist, explains how his work depends on the MGHPCC computing facility as he goes about trying to calculate the many costs of carbon. Read this story at roadtoparis.info