Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center
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Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) is an intercollegiate
History
The Center was first planned in early 2009 in joint discussions between MIT and UMass, with UMass President Jack M. Wilson being a key proponent of the project, and its eventual founding chair. Boston University, Northeastern, and Harvard joined the planning process soon thereafter. Holyoke was selected as the location on June 11, 2009. The specific site was announced on August 9, 2010; a century ago the site had housed a textile mill.[9] Ground was broken on October 5, 2011. The topping off ceremony occurred on November 29, 2011.[10] The facility was completed in November 2012.[11]
Funding
Funding for the construction of the facility came first and foremost from the five university partners.
Infrastructure
Holyoke Gas and Electric partnered with the consortium to do the site selection and to contract for the provision of green power from their
Holyoke's municipal fiber optic network would also play a decisive role in the location of the computing center, and with its construction, a dedicated link 10 gbps was built for the facility's educational affiliates on specialized networks such as the Internet2 consortium.[2][15]
Research
The MGHPCC facilities have been used for a wide variety of applications including,[16] but not limited to, advanced iterative methods for modeling molecular geometry,[17][18] the behavior of stellar wind,[19] ecological resilience of renewable energy systems,[20] and neural circuitry.[21] The facility also serves as a data processing center for a commercial and academic partnership hosted by Boston University known as Mass Open Cloud, a collaborative project to create a novel decentralized public cloud based on the Open Cloud eXchange model.[22][23]
Notes
- mWhpower consumption came from hydroelectric power provided by Holyoke Gas & Electric in 2017, and including the remaining nuclear, solar, and other carbon-free contracted sources more than 94% of this demand was carbon-neutral.
References
- ^ "Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center". Boston University. Archived from the original on October 24, 2018.
- ^ a b c "Utility Infrastructure and Environmental Remediation- Telecommunication Infrastructure". MGHPCC. Archived from the original on February 16, 2018.
- S2CID 9604908.
- ^ "High-tech computing center on track", Boston Globe, October 22, 2009
- ^ "FAQs". MGHPCC. Archived from the original on October 24, 2018.
- ^ "University Research Computing- Architecture". University of Massachusetts Office of the President. Archived from the original on July 18, 2016.
- ^ "For bigger data, more storage". The Harvard Gazette. November 28, 2016. Archived from the original on September 29, 2018.
- ^ Property Map, City of Holyoke. Mapgeo.
- ^ "Mass. schools team up for supercomputer center", Washington Times, October 9, 2011
- ^ SuperComputer Center 'Topped Off', Harvard Crimson, November 30, 2011
- ^ "ABOUT | MGHPCC". www.mghpcc.org. Retrieved 2016-12-31.
- ^ "Partners | MGHPCC". www.mghpcc.org. Retrieved 2016-12-31.
- ^ "Mass. pledges $25M for Holyoke computing center" Archived 2010-04-03 at the Wayback Machine, Mass High Tech, March 29, 2010
- ^ Department of Commerce press release Archived 2011-11-15 at the Wayback Machine, August 24, 2011
- ^ "Why Holyoke?". MGHPCC. Archived from the original on February 16, 2018.
- ^ "A selection of research using the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center". MGHPCC. Archived from the original on October 30, 2018.
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- S2CID 103190532.
- S2CID 256708172.
- hdl:10986/29445.
- PMID 27593177.
- ^ "About". Mass Open Cloud. Retrieved October 30, 2018.
- ^ Gronberg, Ray (June 21, 2018). "Kids across the world likely don't know Red Hat, but it's working for them". The News&Observer. Raleigh. Archived from the original on June 22, 2018.
Further reading
- Sharma, Prateek; Pegus, Patrick; Irwin, David; Shenoy, Prashant; Goodhue, John; Culbert, James (27 July 2017). "Design and Operational Analysis of a Green Data Center". IEEE Internet Computing. XXI (4): 16–24. S2CID 9604908.
External links
- MGHPCC Official Website, public information
- Shared Computing Cluster, Boston University
- Research Computing, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- Research Computing Facility, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Research Computing, Northeastern University Information Technology Services
- High Performance Computing Center, UMass Amherst
- Green High Performance Computing Cluster, UMass Medical