Massachusetts ranked fourth last year among states with the most LEED-certified green buildings, according to the U.S. Green Building Council.

As part of January activities at MIT and at Harvard, two sets of classes brought students onto the MGHPCC systems to learn about computing technologies and about research areas that employ them.

Story by Helen Hill for MGHPCC Supernovae have long been an object of fascination for astronomers and astrophysicists. They are the incredible explosions that take place at the end of a star’s life cycle, and are among the brightest objects in the sky. Robert Fisher, a professor of astrophysics based at UMass Dartmouth, models their […]

Availability for lease or sale announced of MGHPCC next door neighbor, 230,000-square-foot brick-and-beam industrial green complex at 195 Appleton Street. boston.com

An unusual cross-section of leaders convened at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston on Wednesday to celebrate the Working Cities Challenge, a community development initiative for Massachusetts’ smaller cities. At the event were state officials including the Governor, members of the philanthropic community, Fed officials, private sector leaders, and representatives of city government, nonprofits, and […]

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston will inject $1.8 million into six struggling Massachusetts cities, among them Holyoke home of MGHPCC, as part of its first-ever effort to transform urban neighborhoods by encouraging local officials to work more creatively with businesses and nonprofit groups. Boston Globe

Story by Helen Hill for MGHPCC MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change (JPSPGC) seeks to combine scientific research on changes to land, air, and water with innovative policy analysis to confront the global climate challenge. Underpinning their scientific research efforts are complex computer models of many kinds, models that until […]

HOLYOKE — In celebration of Computer Science Education Week, Dec. 9 through 15, about 50 local girls are expected to learn how to break the code of computer programming Wednesday. Read this story at the Daily Hampshire Gazette

Story by Helen Hill for MGHPCC Supercomputing 2013 (SC13), the international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis, took place in Denver CO, November 17-22, 2013.

Read this story at the Springfield Republican. The high performance computing center downtown has received a top grade for being environmentally friendly. The U.S. Green Building Council, a nonprofit organization, has given the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, as it is officially known, its highest rating of platinum certification, officials said this week.

The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) a new computer research facility located in Holyoke, MA and shared by five area universities including MIT, was granted LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum certification on October 29, according to the MIT News Office. Read this story in The Tech

Building co-designed by MIT becomes first university research data center nationwide to earn LEED Platinum certification. MIT News

Silicon Mechanics announced that it is sponsoring the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) in the Student Cluster Competition at the SC13 Conference & Exhibition, taking place November 17-22, 2013, in Denver, CO.

Holyoke, October 29, 2013 – Dignitaries and team members came together at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center facility to mark MGHPCC’s LEED® Platinum Certification from U.S. Green Building Council “First Academic Research Computing Center to Receive Highest Green Certification Level.”

The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) has become the first university research data center to receive a LEED® Platinum certification, the highests green building ranking. The MGHPCC is also one of only 13 data centers in the country to receive a Platinum certification. Computing centers are typically large users of energy.

A computing facility co-founded by Harvard and four other universities in Massachusetts uses outside air to chill its computers, 25 percent recycled content in its building materials, and a hydroelectric power source—features that have earned it national recognition for sustainable design. Read this article in the Harvard Crimson.

The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center in Holyoke is now the first university research data center in the country to earn a LEED platinum certification, the highest rating a building can receive from the US Green Building Council. Only a dozen other data centers have achieved the same status. Read this story from the […]

MGHPCC Gets LEED Platinum MGHPCC Press Release

Linking Holyoke’s past and future, city officials and the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) today unveiled a gearwheel used to power a mill located on the MGHPCC site 140 years ago. The exhibit, located outside the entrance to the data center, also includes an interpretive panel explaining the role of water power in […]

“Green” datacenter design moves upstream to supercomputing setups. slashdot.org