Boston University’s Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering today announced it has received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a “smart-city” cloud platform designed to streamline and strengthen multiple municipal functions. Read the complete story at phys.org
Pioneer Valley, Springfield, business leaders push education, access, marketing in Plan for Progress update. Read this story in the Springfield Republican.
A listing of the cutting-edge technologies that are putting Massachusetts on the map put MGHPCC top of its list of the MA innovators
Research data center scientists are the cowboys of the computing world, but the research computing IT architecture has carry-over potential into enterprises grappling with how to process big data. Meredith Courtemanche explains… Read this story at searchdatacenter.com
This story originally appeared in BU Today The Modular Approach to Cloud Security (MACS) project will use the Massachusetts Open Cloud based at MGHPCC as a testbed.
The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) helped make Massachusetts the fourth-greenest state for building last year… Mayor Morse and Richard F. Sullivan reflect on the greening of their city. Read this story at MassLive.com
Read this story at TechTarget.com Hotspots are a pain in the CRAC, leading some data centers to implement source-of-heat cooling and software tools that redistribute workloads across servers. MGHPCC is in the vanguard.
Read this story by Alex Morse and Greg Bialecki in the Boston Globe. Mayor of Holyoke Alex Morse and Massachusetts Housing and Economic Development secretary Greg Bialecki reflect on efforts to revitalize Holyoke, a central component of which is the development of the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center and the Holyoke Innovation District.
Story by Helen Hill for MGHPCC In this video meet seed-fund collaborators Markus Buehler (MIT) and Alain Karma (Northeastern) who use multiscale modeling to explore and test how biological materials like bone or nacre can, despite their apparent fragility, resist breakage.
The Environmental Business Council of New England Announces Environmental and Energy Industry Winners of the 21st Annual EBEE Awards.
On Friday, in the Western Massachusetts town of Holyoke, Governor Deval Patrick and officials from industry, government and academia joined together for the official launch of a $3 million capital investment, known as the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) project. Read this story at HPCwire
HOLYOKE — Gov. Deval L. Patrick said here Friday the state will invest $3 million in launching a public “cloud” computing project for data storage and innovation. The state’s money will be matched $16 million from universities and private companies, he said, at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center on Bigelow Street.
A pilot project by UMass Amherst researchers led by Professor Prashant Shanoy, using high performance computing to analyze detailed usage records from tens of thousands of smart meters installed in and around Holyoke, could help lead to lower domestic electricity costs. Read this story at masslive.com
From ResearchNext the Research Digest of UMass Amherst Statistical, life science, and social science researchers gathered for a workshop on “Data Sciences for the Life Sciences in a High Performance Computing Environment” in February: the first formal opportunity for the researchers to learn how to effectively utilize the MGHPCC facility.
The Harvard Office for Sustainability has awarded the Harvard project team for the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center a Green Carpet Award.
Following up on the announcement earlier this week that using the BICEP2 telescope (coupled to MGHPCC!!) researchers now have the first strong evidence of “cosmic inflation” at the birth of our universe, MIT physicist Alan Guth explains how these new results bolster his 1980 theory of cosmic inflation.
From ResearchNext the Research Digest of UMass Amherst UMass Amherst computer scientist Prashant Shenoy and electrical and computer engineer David Irwin are leading a team of researchers focused on analyzing smart meters and other tools that could transform the way energy is utilized, monitored, and controlled in America’s buildings, which currently comprise 75% of the […]
Kennedy is slated to host the quarterly meeting of the STEM council March 3, 2014 at the Massachusetts Green High-Performance Computing Center on Cabot and Bigelow streets. Following the meeting, Kennedy will tour the STEM Diversity Institute at the UMass Amherst Life Science Laboratories. The STEM Diversity Institute focuses on expanding opportunities for under-represented minorities […]
Massachusetts ranked fourth last year among states with the most LEED-certified green buildings, according to the U.S. Green Building Council.
