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May 18, 2015
Pricing carbon is a very complex challenge, and not just politically

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

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April 21, 2015
Business, Education, Political Officials Eye Growth Of Innovation Economy

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Political, educational, and business leaders say the northeast is ready to grow a new economy based on science, technology, engineering, and math. Read this story at iBerkshires.com

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April 14, 2015
Girls Connect LEGO Robotics Workshop

March 28, 2015, thirty-six girls, all from Holyoke, participated in Girls Connect LEGO Robotics Workshop at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center. Girls Connect is an intense one-day all-girl introduction to FIRST LEGO League. Organized by the Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education (CAITE), the day-long workshop was co-sponsored by Girls Inc. of Holyoke, […]

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April 14, 2015
Curoverse Announces New Infrastructure Software for Precision Medicine, Genomics and Bioinformatics

Pilot program equipment being deployed at several institutions, including the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center.

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April 14, 2015
Holyoke High School students examine Edaron Inc., Brick, computing center

“From paper to glass blowing to the region’s most sophisticated computers,” high school students get a taste of downtown business through visits to local Holyoke businesses including the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC.) Read this story at masslive.com

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April 14, 2015
Technology Driven Business Models (aka unlimited storage, FLOPS, & bandwidth)

Marc Hamilton – Vice President, Solutions Architecture and Engineering, NVIDIA, reflects on cloud storage, comparing commercial options with the MGHPCC, where our university and research partners are banding together to create their own cloud-like storage which can be more highly tailored to their performance and other specific requirements. Read this story on Marc’s Blog.  

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April 5, 2015
Lighting the Spark

Holyoke Codes represents a collaboration between MGHPCC,  Girls Inc. of Holyoke, Sweet and Fizzy, CAITE (Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education), and NERDs (New England Regional developers) offering free, youth workshops in coding, robotics, and technology. Young coders had a blast in March.

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March 31, 2015
Locking Up Computing

Designing Secure Computer Systems Story by Helen Hill for MGHPCC In this video meet computer architect Srini Devedas (MIT) who is using MGHPCC to meld secure architecture with secure compiler and operating system software, to protect data from the ground up.

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March 12, 2015
Holyoke offers business training for artists

The Holyoke Creative Arts Center is working with the Arts Extension Service at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst to provide business training for artists Saturday and Sunday (March 14 and 15) at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center. Read this story at masslive.com  

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March 10, 2015
3rd Annual Holyoke Innovation District Meeting

The MGHPCC hosted the 3rd Annual Holyoke Innovation District Meeting on March 4, 2015, where State Housing and Economic Development Secretary Jay Ash was guest speaker. Read this story at masslive.com Listen via WAMC Public Radio Watch via WGGB Ch 40 Springfield Download the HID Annual Report as a pdf

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March 2, 2015
‘Small, Gritty and Green’ talk to focus on Holyoke’s advantages

The opportunities available to America’s small post-industrial cities will be the topic of a presentation Monday night (March 2) at Holyoke’s Green High Performance Computing Center. Read this story at masslive.com

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February 9, 2015
The SC14 Massachusetts Green Team Explains Why the Student Cluster Competition Matters

Supercomputing 2014 (SC14), the international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis, took place in New Orleans, LA, November 16-21, 2014. From the Official Blog of SC14 an interview with Team Mass Green.

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January 30, 2015
Unlocking Big Data

Unlocking Big Data Read this story about brain research using the Harvard cluster at the MGHPCC from FAS Research Computing Communications in the Harvard Gazette Learn about brain research using the Harvard’s Odyssey cluster at the MGHPCC

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January 23, 2015
Explosion of Research Data Drives “Tipping Point” for IT Facilities

An interview with Harvard’s Assistant Dean for Research Computing James Cuff: Why researchers need more and more storage and how facilities like MGHPCC can come to the rescue. Read this story from Data Center Knowledge

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January 16, 2015
The 14 Best Startup Cities in America

The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center cited as a factor in making the City of Holyoke fertile ground for startups. Read this story in Popular Mechanics

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December 20, 2014
Holyoke Codes

Along with local partners NERDs (New England Regional Developers), Girls Inc. of Holyoke and the Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education (CAITE), the MGHPCC participated in Computer Science Education Week, December 8 – 14, 2014.

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November 23, 2014
What Universities Can Do About Climate Change

President of Harvard, Drew Gilpin Faust, cites their institution’s  involvement in the MGHPCC as exemplifying  universities taking the lead in “piloting and modeling effective operational practices” in combatting climate change. Read his story in the Huffington Post

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November 4, 2014
CNS Boosts Research and Community via High Performance Computing

UMass Amherst, College of Natural Sciences blogger Steve Goodwin is excited about the kind of research that high performance computing at the MGHPCC makes possible. Read this story in the cns.umass.edu blog

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October 21, 2014
Holyoke company VertitechIT announces deal with Baystate Health to manage new data system

MGHPCC contributes to making Holyoke a tech-friendly place according to new neighbor VertitechIT. Read this story at masslive.com

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October 17, 2014
Excited by Photons?

Modeling electron excitation in organic photovoltaic materials Story by Helen Hill for MGHPCC In this video meet theoretical chemist Adam Willard (MIT) using MGHPCC to better understand molecular level behavior of organic photovoltaic materials.

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Dusty With a Chance of Star Formation
Checking the Medicine Cabinet to Interrupt COVID-19 at the Molecular Level
Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold But Still, Is It Just Right?​
Smashing Discoveries​
Microbiome Pattern Hunting
Modeling the Air we Breathe
Exploring Phytoplankton Diversity
The Computer Will See You Now
Computing the Toll of Trapped Diamondback Terrapins
Edging Towards a Greener Future
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Modeling Plasma-Surface Interactions
Sensing Subduction Zones
Neural Networks & Earthquakes
Small Stars, Smaller Planets, Big Computing
Data Visualization using Climate Reanalyzer
Getting to Grips with Glassy Materials
Modeling Molecular Engines
Forest Mapping: When the Budworms come to Dinner
Exploring Thermoelectric Behavior at the Nanoscale
The Trickiness of Talking to Computers
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From Grass to Gas
Teaching Computers to Identify Odors
From Games to Brains
The Trouble with Turbulence
A New Twist
A Little Bit of This… A Little Bit of That..
Looking Like an Alien!
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Lessons in a Virtual Test Tube​
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Organic Light-Harvesting Antennae
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