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September 21, 2022
NSF FABRIC Project Completes Phase 1

MGHPCC partner the NSF FABRIC project seeks to support a wide variety of cyberinfrastructure research activities aimed at reimagining what the future internet may do for distributed protocols, systems, cybersecurity, and science applications.

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September 9, 2022
MGHPCC Members Expand Facility to Meet Demand for Research Computing

Project Represents $5 Million Investment by MIT, Harvard, BU, Northeastern, and UMass

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May 26, 2022
Mayor Announces Recipient of MGHPCC Scholarship

Annual Award Tops $80K.

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November 22, 2021
UMass Amherst Boosts Deep Learning Research with Powerful New GPU Cluster

New GPU cluster, housed at the MGHPCC, will support artificial intelligence, computer vision and natural language processing research and education.

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November 18, 2021
URI partners with the Massachusetts Green HPC Center

As first partner outside Mass., collaboration set to advance research computing in the region

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November 15, 2021
MGHPCC Co-leads Two Birds of a Feather Sessions at SC21

Sessions, taking place at SC21 through November 19, will explore strategies to increase HPC access and collaboration.

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April 28, 2021
BU and Red Hat Extend, Expand Partnership for Cloud Research

Agreement includes generous software subscriptions and $20 million grant. Expansion offers BU and other members of the MGHPCC, resources to make a greater impact on open cloud research.

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April 27, 2021
Massachusetts Startup Uses Supercomputing to Identify Four Promising COVID Therapeutics

Amid rising global cases and threatening variants, a major gap remains to be filled in the world’s strategy for defeating the pandemic: effective therapeutics.

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April 21, 2021
The Open Storage Network

Providing storage services to production users since the beginning of 2020 the Open Storage Network provides easy access and high bandwidth sharing of active scientific data between research institutions.

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January 12, 2021
Holyoke Codes Goes Virtual

Despite Covid, MGHPCC partner, and STEM community booster activity Holyoke Codes is alive and well and thriving online.

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November 16, 2020
MGHPCC @ SC20

Breadth, Depth and Scientific Value of Computational Research at the MGHPCC booth – Minecraft for engagement built by eighth graders with guidance from Holyoke Codes

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November 5, 2020
Art and AI – Outbreaks from the Grid

A team from UVM gets help from the Northeast Cybterteam to develop an AI-enabled tool for creating digital artworks.

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August 13, 2020
Checking the Medicine Cabinet to Interrupt COVID-19 at the Molecular Level

In the face of the COVID 19 pandemic, a Massachusetts biotech startup turns to the MGHPCC for HPC resources in its hunt for existing FDA-approved drugs that might be a therapeutic candidate against the novel coronavirus.

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July 16, 2020
Changing the Face of Computer Science Education One State at a Time

It has long been recognized that computing, as a field, is strikingly less diverse than the users of the technology it produces, exhibiting a stubbornly enduring gender and underrepresented minority gap often referred to as “the Missing 70%.” MGHPCC partner, the NSF funded Expanding Computing Education Pathways (ECEP) Alliance, seeks to facilitate state-level systemic change […]

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July 1, 2020
Not too hot, not too cold but still, is it just right?

Modelers at UMass Lowell use MGHPCC computers to assess whether the close stellar proximity of a recently discovered Red-dwarf orbiting, Earth-like exoplanet could negatively impact its effective habitability.

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April 29, 2020
Smashing Discoveries

Using computers housed at the MGHPCC, UMass Dartmouth graduate student develops new model to aid gravitational wave discoveries.

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April 22, 2020
Microbiome Pattern Hunting

Robert Marsland III is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Theoretical Biophysics Group at Boston University. He uses computers housed at the MGHPCC in his work hunting down the governing principles underpinning the dynamics and community ecology of microbial systems on scales from the human gut up to that of the planet itself.

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March 25, 2020
Modeling the Air we Breathe

reporting by Helen Hill Researchers at Harvard’s School of Public Health and elsewhere are using computers housed at the MGHPCC to fine-scale air pollution estimation to help guide policymakers.

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February 11, 2020
Exploring Phytoplankton Diversity

reporting by Helen Hill In a new paper,  MIT researcher Stephanie Dutkiewicz and collaborators use computers housed at the MGHPCC to develop theories to explain and predict how phytoplankton are distributed in the ocean.

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October 30, 2019
The Computer Will See You Now

Vijaya B. Kolachalama, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Medicine. His area of expertise is in computational biomedicine and in particular machine learning and computer vision.

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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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