January 28th, 2010 / Posted by InnovateHolyoke
According to the Massachusetts Republican [online edition], a 28-member panel task force will meet for the first time on Thursday to discuss the fate of $80 million destined for a supercomputing center in Holyoke. The Holyoke High Performance Computing Center Innovation District Design and Development Task Force [come on, what else would they call it!?] consists of officials, academics and business luminaries from Western Massachusetts. The governor unveiled the task force during a recent visit.
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January 19th, 2010 / Posted by InnovateHolyoke
HOLYOKE – A new task force created to help the region reap the benefits of a planned $80 million high performance computer center has been assured by a state official that construction would begin by this fall.
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January 15th, 2010 / Posted by InnovateHolyoke
It was a spirit of entrepreneurship that made Holyoke into one of New England’s most vibrant industrial centers more than a century ago. Today, that spirit lives on in a place where one might not expect to find it — at the city’s 107-year-old municipal utility. The Holyoke Gas & Electric Department…
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January 12th, 2010 / Posted by InnovateHolyoke
The newly-formed Holyoke Innovation District Design and Development Task Force is holding its first meeting on Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 11:30 a.m. at the Holyoke Heritage State Park Visitors Center Exhibit Hall. The Task Force’s mission is to represent the economic development interests of the city of Holyoke and the Pioneer Valley through active dialogue and participation during the development of a vision, design, and development plan for the innovation district to be anchored by a world-class, state-of-the-art High Performance Computing Center. A detailed agenda can be viewed here.
For examples of other High Performance Computing Center Districts, please see the following: High Performance Computing Center Districts
For photos from the meeting, click on the Flickr icon, above right.
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