Members of the region’s vibrant research computing and cyberinfrastructure community, spanning academia, non-profit and for profit enterprises, came together for a conversation on future directions in research computing and cyberinfrastructure in the US northeast (ME, NH, VT, MA, CT, RI, NY, PA, NJ) at a workshop held at the Westin Hotel, Waltham, MA, on September […]

As the MGHPCC approaches its 3rd birthday,  Springfield Republican writer Mike Pleasance reflects on the myriad high performance computing projects the 100 Bigelow Street center is facilitating. Read this story at masslive.com

Join a conversation on future directions in research computing and cyberinfrastructure in the US northeast (ME, NH, VT, MA, CT, RI, NY, PA, NJ), Westin Hotel, Waltham, MA on September 15th, 8:30AM - 4:30PM.

The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center together with Clemson University Cyberinfrastructure Technology Integration (CITI) Group and Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) is organizing an Intel Xeon Phi Training Workshop on Stampede supercomputer. The workshop will be hosted at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center on Monday, September 21 and Tuesday September 22, 2015, […]

The Academic Technology Group at UMass Lowell hosted two general discussion sessions on the Lowell campus during the month of July which were open to all faculty. These sessions included a general overview of what MGHPCC is and the resources it can provide to our researchers. In total we had 26 researchers and students participate. […]

Story by Helen Hill for MGHPCC FloDesign Sonics is using MGHPCC to understand micron sized particles' movement inside 3D acoustic fields. Such types of calculations involve solving trajectories of tens of thousands of particles and their effect on the flow field along with particle-particle collisions. Due to the complex nature of such computations, a supercomputer […]

Li-Jun Ma, a University of Massachusetts Amherst biochemist and genomics expert, and an MGHPCC seed fund awardee, has received a coveted five-year, $500,000 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease award to develop new treatment options for opportunistic fungal infections. Read more at phys.org

Added value of joint initiatives, such as the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) project, cited as sources of potential for Sates beyond simple cost savings. In the words of Azer Bestavros, director of the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering at Boston University, “Just as a shopping mall provides a shared […]

The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) is the centerpiece of Harvard's commitment to Green IT. Read all about why in Harvard's Green IT Strategy White Paper

Ahead of the Climate Conference in Paris later this year, roadtoparis.info is providing important background  on science, policy and economics. In this article, Niven Winchester, an MIT environmental economist, explains how his work depends on the MGHPCC computing facility as he goes about trying to calculate the many costs of carbon. Read this story at roadtoparis.info

Pilot program equipment being deployed at several institutions, including the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center.

Marc Hamilton – Vice President, Solutions Architecture and Engineering, NVIDIA, reflects on cloud storage, comparing commercial options with the MGHPCC, where our university and research partners are banding together to create their own cloud-like storage which can be more highly tailored to their performance and other specific requirements. Read this story on Marc's Blog.  

Designing Secure Computer Systems Story by Helen Hill for MGHPCC In this video meet computer architect Srini Devedas (MIT) who is using MGHPCC to meld secure architecture with secure compiler and operating system software, to protect data from the ground up.

Supercomputing 2014 (SC14), the international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis, took place in New Orleans, LA, November 16-21, 2014. From the Official Blog of SC14 an interview with Team Mass Green.

Unlocking Big Data Read this story about brain research using the Harvard cluster at the MGHPCC from FAS Research Computing Communications in the Harvard Gazette Learn about brain research using the Harvard's Odyssey cluster at the MGHPCC

An interview with Harvard's Assistant Dean for Research Computing James Cuff: Why researchers need more and more storage and how facilities like MGHPCC can come to the rescue. Read this story from Data Center Knowledge

President of Harvard, Drew Gilpin Faust, cites their institution's  involvement in the MGHPCC as exemplifying  universities taking the lead in "piloting and modeling effective operational practices" in combatting climate change. Read his story in the Huffington Post

Modeling electron excitation in organic photovoltaic materials Story by Helen Hill for MGHPCC In this video meet theoretical chemist Adam Willard (MIT) using MGHPCC to better understand molecular level behavior of organic photovoltaic materials.

Boston University's Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering today announced it has received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a "smart-city" cloud platform designed to streamline and strengthen multiple municipal functions. Read the complete story at phys.org

This story originally appeared in BU Today The Modular Approach to Cloud Security (MACS) project will use the Massachusetts Open Cloud based at MGHPCC as a testbed.