By GEORGE O’BRIEN
The high-performance computing center planned for downtown Holyoke will apparently become reality in the next 12 to 18 months. While details of that venture — to involve UMass, MIT, and many other institutions — are starting to emerge, speculation has begun in earnest about what kinds of economic-development opportunities will follow such a project.
Editorial Business West
This fall’s elections brought changes at the top for many area communities. Indeed, there will be many new mayors settling into office in January, and many will face immediate — and stern — challenges.
HOLYOKE – City officials are so excited about Holyoke’s economic development potential, they made a movie about it.
“Holyoke: Green Business Grows Here” is a 13-minute DVD produced to market the Paper City’s low-cost and environmentally-friendly hydroelectric power, its proximity to New York City, Boston, highways and airports and a comprehensive fiber-optic network.
Where is “the cloud”? It’s everywhere and nowhere; it’s the power of algorithms distributed across entire networks but concentrated down to the screen of your wireless laptop; it’s the sum of all the world’s on-demand computing jobs, churning away in big data centers in secure, undisclosed locations, flinging their inputs and outputs across the electronic ether. But for one day, at least, the nucleus of the cloud will be in a definite place: Microsoft’s New England Research and Development Center in Cambridge, the venue for Xconomy’s December 10 Cloud3 Forum and its companion event, CloudCamp Boston.
By Alan Wirzbicki, Globe correspondent
WASHINGTON — Hoping to win a big new chunk of federal stimulus money, Governor Deval Patrick pitched the Obama administration today on three proposals that would expand broadband access in pockets of Massachusetts that now lack adequate high-speed connections.
AMHERST, MA (wfcr) – Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick has traveled to Washington to meet with various officials in the administration of President Barack Obama. As WFCR’s Fred Bever reports, that included a sit-down with the Secretary of Commerce, where Patrick made a pitch for expanding broadband services in Western Massachusetts. © Copyright 2009, wfcr
