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October 18, 2017
North East Research and Education Network Seminar

NEREN Seminar “Bridging the Gap — Advancing Regional Collaboration and Research IT Collaboration” Sponsored by Intel, Red River and Vast Data

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September 19, 2017
Exploring Thermoelectric Behavior at the Nanoscale

by Helen Hill for MGHPCC Zlatan Aksamija, an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, uses computers at the MGHPCC to carry out nanomolecular materials modeling experiments exploring the thermoelectric behavior of materials for use in energy applications.

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July 19, 2017
HPC Futures

by Helen Hill for MGHPCC Billed as “a one day exploration of ideas and planning for future computational research at Boston area universities, institutes, hospitals, libraries and companies” the HPC Futures conference, held on June 30th at the Cambridge Hyatt Regency, shone a spotlight on the uniquely rich local high performance computing landscape much of […]

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July 13, 2017
The Trickiness of Talking to Computers

by Helen Hill for MGHPCC James Glass is a senior research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Glass leads the Spoken Language Systems Group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL.) His research is focused on automatic speech recognition, unsupervised speech processing, and spoken language understanding. This past spring, assisted by graduate student […]

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July 1, 2017
MGHPCC, UNH, UVM, UMaine Launch Regional Research Computing Initiative

NSF-Funded Project Aims to Strengthen Regional Innovation Economy by Supporting Computationally Intensive Research at Small- and Medium-Sized Institutions

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June 20, 2017
UMass Dartmouth Hosts 3rd Annual HPC Day

UMass Dartmouth’s Center for Scientific Computing & Visualization Research (CSCVR) organizes and hosts “HPC Day 2017” on May 25th.

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May 24, 2017
A Genomic Take on Geobiology

By Helen Hill for MGHPCC Researchers in Greg Fournier’s Geobiology Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), are using the MGHPCC facility in work seeking to calibrate the ancient history of life on Earth using the ultra youthful tool of genomic analysis.

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May 16, 2017
Center for Data Science Research Symposium

Data Science Research Symposium highlights innovative research and industry collaboration. Read this story at UMassAmherst News

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April 25, 2017
Lessons in a Virtual Test Tube

Dr. Saritha Nellutla is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Sciences at Bridgewater State University (BSU) in Bridgewater MA. She uses the C3DDB cluster housed at the MGHPCC in her teaching.

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April 21, 2017
Neural Networks & Earthquakes

By Helen Hill for MGHPCC The potential for loss of property and life, has made earthquake forecasting and prediction an active area of research for statisticians and earth scientists. While it is not currently possible to make deterministic predictions of when and where earthquakes will happen, new techniques like those recently reported by the Meade […]

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April 4, 2017
HPC Day 2017

May 25, 2017 UMass Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Road North Dartmouth, MA 9am – 6pm Free registration, poster abstract submission and more details at: cscvr.umassd.edu/HPCday On May 25, UMass Dartmouth will be hosting “HPC Day 2017”  — a conference to showcase computationally intensive research by scientists from all over Massachusetts.   The conference is being […]

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March 2, 2017
Small Stars, Smaller Planets, Big Computing

Story by Helen Hill for MGHPCC Mark Veyette is a PhD student at Boston University studying Astronomy. His research focuses on characterizing low mass stars and the exoplanets that orbit them. In particular, he studies the composition of M dwarf stars and how that relates to the types of planets that form around them.

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February 9, 2017
UMass Amherst boosts deep learning research with powerful new GPU cluster

AMHERST, Mass. – With a new cluster of specialized graphics processing units (GPUs) now installed at the MGHPCC, the University of Massachusetts Amherst is poised to attract the nation’s next crop of top Ph.D. students and researchers in such fields as artificial intelligence, computer vision and natural language processing, says associate professor Erik Learned-Miller of […]

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January 31, 2017
2016: Year in Review

Our 10 top news stories from 2016:

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December 20, 2016
IOMICS: Precision Models to Protect the Environment, Accelerate Drug Development, and Improve Healthcare

IOMICS Corporation is an award winning analytics company based in Worcester and Cambridge Massachusetts. In April 2016, IOMICS announced the release of its FUSION Analytics Platform™, a cloud-based software system for prescriptive analytics and rapid prototyping of advanced decision models for use in chemical engineering, medical research, and clinical care. FUSION is hosted at the […]

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December 6, 2016
Lincoln Laboratory’s supercomputing system ranked most powerful in New England

Lincoln Lab’s new Dell EMC petaflop-scale supercomputer, housed at the MGHPCC, has 6 times more processing power and 20 times more bandwidth than its predecessor.

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November 29, 2016
For Bigger Data, More Storage

Research progress is increasingly impacted by the available capacity of storage to flexibly exploit vast volumes of digital information. This is a trend across all fields of research, from astrophysics to zoology. The Northeast Storage Exchange (NESE) project, supported by the National Science Foundation, will create a next-generation storage infrastructure specifically targeted at enabling new […]

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October 18, 2016
Teaching Computers to Identify Odors

In experiments echoing mice behavior, researchers emulate how brains recognize specific smells. The Harvard Gazette spotlights work  by professor of molecular and cellular biology  Venkatesh Murthy using computer housed at the MGHPCC.

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September 20, 2016
Grass to Gas

Computational Chemistry Fuels Biofuels Research University of Massachusetts Amherst computational chemist Scott Auerbach is using the MGHPCC in research helping him understand and optimize the process of producing fuels such as gasoline from plant biomass instead of from petroleum.

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August 23, 2016
Commonwealth Awards $5 Million to UMass Amherst to Support New Data Science Collaborative

The Baker-Polito administration announces a $5 million grant to the University of Massachusetts Amherst to establish the UMass Amherst Data Science/Cybersecurity Research and Education Collaborative, a public-private partnership designed to accelerate data science innovation in the Pioneer Valley region of Western Massachusetts. The state capital funding will support new, advanced computing equipment to be installed at […]

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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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