Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center
The main facilities of the MGHPCC | |
| Established | 2012 |
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| Research type | Multiprogram |
Field of research | Physical science Life science Environmental science Energy science Data science Computational science |
| Director | John Goodhue |
Board Chairman | Robert A. Brown (2011–) |
| Address | 100 Bigelow Street, Holyoke, MA 01040 |
| Location | Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA 42°12′9.0756″N 72°36′28.5588″W / 42.202521000°N 72.607933000°W |
| Campus | 8.6 acres |
| Affiliations | |
| Website | www.mghpcc.org |
Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) is an intercollegiate high-performance computing facility located in Holyoke, Massachusetts, connected to that city's municipal fiber grid and powered by Holyoke Gas and Electric via the Holyoke Canal System and Dam. MGHPCC is a joint venture of Boston University, Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, the University of Massachusetts system, and Yale University; the facility holds the capacity for hundreds of thousands of cores in clusters provided by its affiliates. For example, as of 2016 one cluster used by UMass contained a network of 14,376 cores, both Intel and AMD, and more than 1.1 petabytes of on-site storage on an FDR Infiniband network. The facility maintains capacity for regular expansion, with key partners investing capability upgrades in the current building and more than 4 acres of additional undeveloped space.