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September 29, 2026
Introducing the AI Compute Resource: Shared Infrastructure for the AI Era

A statewide resource helping transform AI research into real-world impact, workforce development, and economic opportunity.

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September 29, 2026
AI is Divisive. We Love That.

Lighthouse, a school in downtown Holyoke that is a neighbor of the MGHPCC, hosts a series of open-to-all evening discussion groups. This blog post reflects on a recent discussion, Understanding the Data Center Dilemma, and the wide range of views sparked by AI, data centers, and their impacts on communities.

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September 14, 2026
MGHPCC Helps Advance National Data Platform with New NSF Award

A new $24.5 million National Science Foundation award to the National Data Platform (NDP) will help build a national-scale, AI-ready ecosystem that makes research data easier to discover, access, and analyze.

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September 14, 2026
More Power to Every Researcher

With infrastructure hosted at the MGHPCC, MIT's Project Olympia will help ensure that researchers across disciplines have the computational resources needed to drive the next generation of scientific discovery.

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September 14, 2026
Holyoke banned new data centers. But it likes the eco-conscious one it already has...

... the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center.

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September 1, 2026
August 2026 Publications

Generative AI in games? Cleaning TESS images? Prediction of relative kinetic solvent effects? A selection of recent publications featuring research using computers at the MGHPCC.

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August 7, 2026
This AI scientist can run an X-ray experiment.

Reporting on Bansil Lab research using NEU's Discovery Cluster highlights the very real prospect of self-driving labs.

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July 23, 2026
MGHPCC: Supporting Computationally Intensive Research and Education

A regional center for research and education where advanced computing helps improve health, energy, resilience, and scientific discovery.

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July 23, 2026
Combining AI with laboratory evolution yields improved proteins

Broad Institute researchers found that AI-redesigned versions of natural proteins serve as superior starting points to evolve proteins with new functions.

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June 6, 2026
A new generative AI approach to predicting chemical reactions

MIT chemists use MGHPCC computers to design impact-resistant plastics.

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June 2, 2026
800G per second! UMass Amherst Advances Next-Gen Research Networking

What does it take to move scientific data at speeds fast enough to support breakthroughs in particle physics, genomics, climate modeling, and space science? At UMass Amherst, the answer increasingly lies in building and sharing next-generation research networking infrastructure.

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June 2, 2026
Single-molecule tracker illuminates workings of cancer-related proteins

Broad Institute scientists use their custom-built microscopy and nanotechnology to tag and follow the activity of individual proteins in real time, showing how it can reveal new biology.

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April 28, 2026
Researchers Discovering New Mosquito-Specific Viruses

Boston University researcher insights may apply to combatting arbovirus diseases like fevers from dengue, Zika and chikungunya virus infections in humans.

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April 21, 2026
MGHPCC Powers Breakthroughs in Biomedical Research with High-Performance Computing

Shared supercomputing infrastructure at the Center is enabling researchers to tackle data‑intensive challenges across genomics, cancer, infectious disease, and beyond.

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April 2, 2026
A Wisconsin-sized Chunk of Alaskan Permafrost is Thawing; Arctic and Global Climate May Never be the Same

UMass Amherst researchers find that when permafrost is perma-lost, the global carbon cycle is altered and coastal ecosystem are affected.

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March 23, 2026
Massive Increase of Computing Power for Kempner Institute at Harvard

Kempner Institute announces major expansion of its AI supercomputing cluster at the MGHPCC, ushering in a new era of academic supercomputing at Harvard.

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February 5, 2026
Computer simulations show strong ocean currents reduce size of surface waves

URI researchers determine how much hurricane-driven ocean currents modify surface waves and why it happens.

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December 17, 2025
MGHPCC AICR Hardware Providers Announced.

Cambridge Computer, Dell Technologies and VAST to create new computing resource environment.

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December 17, 2025
Woman-led Cambridge Computer chosen to help build Massachusetts' AI computing backbone

The Massachusetts AI Hub has selected the vendors that will build the key computational infrastructure for the state's AI initiatives — and one of them is a local, woman-led company.

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December 4, 2025
NET2 and NESE Debut at SC25 Network Research Exhibition with High-Speed Data Transfer

UMass NET2 and Harvard NESE teams come together to showcase advanced networking and storage technologies, with NESE achieving sustained transfers of 700 Gb/s, paving the way for future large-scale scientific workflows.

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