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December 22, 2015
Apply to the Spring 2016 MGHPCC Internship Program

The MGHPCC is now accepting applications for its 2016 spring semester internship program. Interested students should email resumes to  by February 15th, 2016.   Continue reading →  

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December 1, 2015
Computer Science Education Week and Holyoke Codes

Holyoke Codes offers week of kid-friendly computer science events at the MGHPCC. Read this story at MassLive.com

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November 20, 2015
Family Creative Learning Workshops

November 1, the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) hosted a party to showcase projects from "Family Creative learning", a workshop series developed at MIT, for children and parents to learn together — as designers and inventors — through the use of creative technologies.

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September 23, 2015
Sewing Seeds of Progress in Holyoke

BusinessWest.com spotlights calls out MGHPCC's role in the restoration of Holyoke's economy through the arts, technology, and green business. Read this story at business west.com 

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September 1, 2015
"Exploring Computer Science" at the MGHPCC

While children play, teachers work: It may still have been the summer vacation, but to prepare them to offer a new introductory computer science class to their students beginning this fall, teachers from a dozen area high schools attended a week long professional development workshop at MGHPCC in early August.

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August 3, 2015
An MGHPCC Eureka Moment

On July 8th, 2015 girls in the Girls Inc. Eureka! program spent the day at the MGHPCC exploring big data and technology integration. Working with UMass professors Li-Jun Ma and Hans Johnston and MGHPCC I.T. technical lead James Culbert, girls toured the MGHPCC to learn about the data center, the power of the technology and […]

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July 28, 2015
Lego program helps parents, teachers conquer robotics

Parents and teachers explore concepts in robotics and programming at a workshop aimed at familiarizing parents and educators with concepts in computer programming. Read this story in the Boston Globe

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July 7, 2015
City of Holyoke Announces 2015 Scholarship Recipients

Holyoke, Massachusetts, June 30, 2015 – Holyoke Mayor Alex B. Morse today announced the recipients of 9 scholarship awards to Holyoke Public School students, totaling $30,800, from three programs sponsored by the Massachusetts Green High Computing Center (MGHPCC) and the Comcast Leaders and Achievers Program. MGHPCC Press Release

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June 8, 2015
Studying Learning at the MGHPCC

Florence Sullivan, an associate professor in the College of Education at UMass Amherst uses microgenetic analysis (an in-depth way of analyzing the behavior of a system as it evolves) to study student creativity in technologically complex learning environments. She is particularly interested in the development of creative ideas in small groups working with constructionist technologies. […]

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April 21, 2015
Business, Education, Political Officials Eye Growth Of Innovation Economy

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Political, educational, and business leaders say the northeast is ready to grow a new economy based on science, technology, engineering, and math. Read this story at iBerkshires.com

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April 14, 2015
Girls Connect LEGO Robotics Workshop

March 28, 2015, thirty-six girls, all from Holyoke, participated in Girls Connect LEGO Robotics Workshop at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center. Girls Connect is an intense one-day all-girl introduction to FIRST LEGO League. Organized by the Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education (CAITE), the day-long workshop was co-sponsored by Girls Inc. of Holyoke, […]

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April 14, 2015
Holyoke High School students examine Edaron Inc., Brick, computing center

"From paper to glass blowing to the region's most sophisticated computers," high school students get a taste of downtown business through visits to local Holyoke businesses including the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC.) Read this story at masslive.com

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April 5, 2015
Lighting the Spark

Holyoke Codes represents a collaboration between MGHPCC,  Girls Inc. of Holyoke, Sweet and Fizzy, CAITE (Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education), and NERDs (New England Regional developers) offering free, youth workshops in coding, robotics, and technology. Young coders had a blast in March.

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March 12, 2015
Holyoke offers business training for artists

The Holyoke Creative Arts Center is working with the Arts Extension Service at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst to provide business training for artists Saturday and Sunday (March 14 and 15) at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center. Read this story at masslive.com  

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March 10, 2015
3rd Annual Holyoke Innovation District Meeting

The MGHPCC hosted the 3rd Annual Holyoke Innovation District Meeting on March 4, 2015, where State Housing and Economic Development Secretary Jay Ash was guest speaker. Read this story at masslive.com Listen via WAMC Public Radio Watch via WGGB Ch 40 Springfield Download the HID Annual Report as a pdf

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March 2, 2015
'Small, Gritty and Green' talk to focus on Holyoke's advantages

The opportunities available to America's small post-industrial cities will be the topic of a presentation Monday night (March 2) at Holyoke's Green High Performance Computing Center. Read this story at masslive.com

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January 16, 2015
The 14 Best Startup Cities in America

The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center cited as a factor in making the City of Holyoke fertile ground for startups. Read this story in Popular Mechanics

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December 20, 2014
Holyoke Codes

Along with local partners NERDs (New England Regional Developers), Girls Inc. of Holyoke and the Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education (CAITE), the MGHPCC participated in Computer Science Education Week, December 8 – 14, 2014.

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November 4, 2014
CNS Boosts Research and Community via High Performance Computing

UMass Amherst, College of Natural Sciences blogger Steve Goodwin is excited about the kind of research that high performance computing at the MGHPCC makes possible. Read this story in the cns.umass.edu blog

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October 21, 2014
Holyoke company VertitechIT announces deal with Baystate Health to manage new data system

MGHPCC contributes to making Holyoke a tech-friendly place according to new neighbor VertitechIT. Read this story at masslive.com

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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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