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Executive Director

John Goodhue

John Goodhue is the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, a data center and consortium that serves more than 20,000 researchers, students, and educators at Boston University, Harvard University, MIT, Northeastern University, the University of Massachusetts, and other institutions in the Northeast.

In addition to operation of an energy efficient data center, John’s interests include regional and national collaboration on infrastructure for research computing, through his work on the MGHPCC Research Education and Outreach working group, as a co-PI on the Northeast Storage Exchange and the Open Storage Network, and as a steering committee member for the Northeast Big Data Hub and the Eastern Regional Network. As Principal Investigator for the Northeast Cyberteam, he has applied particular focus to partnerships that make advanced computing more accessible researchers at small and mid-sized institutions. John’s interests also include developing the next generation of computing professionals, with emphasis on workforce diversity, through his work on the Northeast Cyberteam, the Expanding Computer Science Education Pathways Alliance. the MGHPCC internship program, Holyoke Codes, and local workforce development partnerships at the MGHPCC.

John’s industry experience spans 30 years in networking and high performance computing, including technology leadership, engineering management, and general management positions at Cisco Systems, where he led the development and marketing of Internet routers and software, and at BBN Technologies, where he led projects to develop Internet routing and High Performance Computing technologies. He has also served on the management teams for several early stage Boston-area startup companies. John holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Research projects

A Future of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Yale Budget Lab
Volcanic Eruptions Impact on Stratospheric Chemistry & Ozone
The Rhode Island Coastal Hazards Analysis, Modeling, and Prediction System
Towards a Whole Brain Cellular Atlas
Tornado Path Detection
The Kempner Institute – Unlocking Intelligence
The Institute for Experiential AI
Taming the Energy Appetite of AI Models
Surface Behavior
Studying Highly Efficient Biological Solar Energy Systems
Software for Unreliable Quantum Computers
Simulating Large Biomolecular Assemblies
SEQer – Sequence Evaluation in Realtime
Revolutionizing Materials Design with Computational Modeling
Remote Sensing of Earth Systems
QuEra at the MGHPCC
Quantum Computing in Renewable Energy Development
Pulling Back the Quantum Curtain on ‘Weyl Fermions’
New Insights on Binary Black Holes
NeuraChip
Network Attached FPGAs in the OCT
Monte Carlo eXtreme (MCX) – a Physically-Accurate Photon Simulator
Modeling Hydrogels and Elastomers
Modeling Breast Cancer Spread
Measuring Neutrino Mass
Investigating Mantle Flow Through Analyses of Earthquake Wave Propagation
Impact of Marine Heatwaves on Coral Diversity
IceCube: Hunting Neutrinos
Genome Forecasting
Global Consequences of Warming-Induced Arctic River Changes
Fuzzing the Linux Kernel
Exact Gravitational Lensing by Rotating Black Holes
Evolution of Viral Infectious Disease
Evaluating Health Benefits of Stricter US Air Quality Standards
Ephemeral Stream Water Contributions to US Drainage Networks
Energy Transport and Ultrafast Spectroscopy Lab
Electron Heating in Kinetic-Alfvén-Wave Turbulence
Discovering Evolution’s Master Switches
Dexterous Robotic Hands
Developing Advanced Materials for a Sustainable Energy Future
Detecting Protein Concentrations in Assays
Denser Environments Cultivate Larger Galaxies
Deciphering Alzheimer’s Disease
Dancing Frog Genomes
Cyber-Physical Communication Network Security
Avoiding Smash Hits
Analyzing the Gut Microbiome
Adaptive Deep Learning Systems Towards Edge Intelligence
Accelerating Rendering Power
ACAS X: A Family of Next-Generation Collision Avoidance Systems
Neurocognition at the Wu Tsai Institute, Yale
Computational Modeling of Biological Systems
Computational Molecular Ecology
Social Capital and Economic Mobility
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Outreach & Education Projects

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