The ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider explores the fundamental particles and forces that make up our universe. To support this work, ATLAS relies on a worldwide computing infrastructure that stores, distributes, and analyzes data collected by the detector.

The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) provides this infrastructure through a global network of data centers that together deliver roughly one million CPU cores and more than 1,000 PB of storage. The US ATLAS program operates one Tier 1 center and four Tier 2 centers within this network.

Hosted at the MGHPCC, the Northeast Tier 2 Center is operated by the University of Massachusetts Amherst Physics Department and UMass Amherst Research Computing. The center provides compute and storage resources used by ATLAS researchers to process and analyze data from the Large Hadron Collider. Storage is provided through the New England Storage Ecosystem (NESE), developed in collaboration with Harvard University.

Through the Northeast Tier 2 Center, MGHPCC helps connect regional research infrastructure to a global scientific collaboration working to answer some of the most fundamental questions in physics.