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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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Foldit
Dusty With a Chance of Star Formation
Checking the Medicine Cabinet to Interrupt COVID-19 at the Molecular Level
Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold But Still, Is It Just Right?​
Smashing Discoveries​
Microbiome Pattern Hunting
Modeling the Air we Breathe
Exploring Phytoplankton Diversity
The Computer Will See You Now
Computing the Toll of Trapped Diamondback Terrapins
Edging Towards a Greener Future
Physics-driven Drug Discovery
Modeling Plasma-Surface Interactions
Sensing Subduction Zones
Neural Networks & Earthquakes
Small Stars, Smaller Planets, Big Computing
Data Visualization using Climate Reanalyzer
Getting to Grips with Glassy Materials
Modeling Molecular Engines
Forest Mapping: When the Budworms come to Dinner
Exploring Thermoelectric Behavior at the Nanoscale
The Trickiness of Talking to Computers
A Genomic Take on Geobiology
From Grass to Gas
Teaching Computers to Identify Odors
From Games to Brains
The Trouble with Turbulence
A New Twist
A Little Bit of This… A Little Bit of That..
Looking Like an Alien!
Locking Up Computing
Modeling Supernovae
Sound Solution
Lessons in a Virtual Test Tube​
Crack Computing
Automated Real-time Medical Imaging Analysis
Towards a Smarter Greener Grid
Heading Off Head Blight
Organic Light-Harvesting Antennae
Art and AI
Excited by Photons
Tapping into an Ocean of Data
Computing Global Change
Star Power
Engineering the Human Microbiome
Computing Social Capital
Computers Diagnosing Disease
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