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September 4, 2015
Holyoke high performance computing center nears 3rd anniversary

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

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September 3, 2015
Future directions in Research Computing and Cyberinfrastructure Kickoff Meeting

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.

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August 19, 2015
Intel Xeon Phi workshop

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, […]

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July 25, 2015
Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) and UMass Lowell

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. […]

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June 24, 2015
Sound Solution

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 […]

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June 15, 2015
UMass Amherst biochemist named a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigator

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

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June 15, 2015
United States of Cloud saves states millions of dollars

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 […]

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June 9, 2015
Harvard’s Green IT

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

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May 18, 2015
Pricing carbon is a very complex challenge, and not just politically

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

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April 14, 2015
Curoverse Announces New Infrastructure Software for Precision Medicine, Genomics and Bioinformatics

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

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April 14, 2015
Technology Driven Business Models (aka unlimited storage, FLOPS, & bandwidth)

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.  

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March 31, 2015
Locking Up Computing

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.

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February 9, 2015
The SC14 Massachusetts Green Team Explains Why the Student Cluster Competition Matters

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.

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January 30, 2015
Unlocking Big Data

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

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January 23, 2015
Explosion of Research Data Drives “Tipping Point” for IT Facilities

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

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November 23, 2014
What Universities Can Do About Climate Change

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

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October 17, 2014
Excited by Photons?

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.

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September 23, 2014
BU receives NSF grant to develop ‘smart city’ cloud platform

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

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August 6, 2014
Securing the Cloud

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.

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July 2, 2014
Rack Cooling, Workload Management Tools Fight Hotspots

Read this story at TechTarget.com Hotspots are a pain in the CRAC, leading some data centers to implement source-of-heat cooling and software tools that redistribute workloads across servers. MGHPCC is in the vanguard.

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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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