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.
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 […]
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 […]
NSF-Funded Project Aims to Strengthen Regional Innovation Economy by Supporting Computationally Intensive Research at Small- and Medium-Sized Institutions
UMass Dartmouth’s Center for Scientific Computing & Visualization Research (CSCVR) organizes and hosts “HPC Day 2017” on May 25th.
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.
Data Science Research Symposium highlights innovative research and industry collaboration. Read this story at UMassAmherst News
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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.
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.
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 […]
Harnessing the Power of GPUs to Speed Medical Imaging Story by Helen Hill Researchers from Northeastern University are using computers at the MGHPCC to improve the performance of a popular medical imaging tool which estimates 3D light distribution in biological tissue using GPU technology to simultaneously simulate the paths of large numbers of independent photons.
