Video highlights of the 10/05/2010 groundbreaking ceremony, which were held on the site of the new computing center are now available. This and other videos related to the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center in Holyoke are available on our Innovate Holyoke YouTube Channel.
HOLYOKE – In the mid-1800s, the large brick building off of Dwight Street was a lynchpin of the city’s economic prosperity, the first mill built along the canals as part of the “planned city of Holyoke.”
HOLYOKE – University of Massachusetts professor Lila M. Gierasch analyzes why protein molecules arrange the way they do in human cells because such blueprints are linked to Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s diseases and some forms of cancer.
HOLYOKE, Mass. (WWLP) – Holyoke is stepping up technology in the city in an effort to make the streets safer.
Cisco, a so-called “smart and connected” communities program announced today it’s collaborating with the city to provide a radio and video system that will allow different departments to better communicate with each other.
by Mike Plaisance, The Republican
HOLYOKE – Cisco Systems Inc. unveiled its Smart + Connected Communities program for Holyoke on Thursday aimed at improving communication for public safety, education, health care and government.
A press conference at the Holyoke Transportation Center on Maple Street featured big video screens that showed people participating in the Paper City announcement from Cisco gatherings in Boston, Dallas, Chicago, New York, Norway and other areas.
Big ideas need big follow-through.
That’s what it took to bring state, university and business leaders to Holyoke last week to celebrate the two-year process leading to the groundbreaking for a $168 million high performance computing center.
It was a process that required not only big thinking, but big collaboration between the likes of the University of Massachusetts and MIT and Harvard and Northeastern University.
Paul Tuthill (2010-10-06)
HOLYOKE, MA (WAMC) – There are high hopes for a high performance computing center that is to be built where a block long former fabrics mill now stands in downtown Holyoke Massachusetts…WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill reports…
Private partners contribution brings support for landmark project to $80M; positions Massachusetts as global leader in next generation of computing technologies
HOLYOKE – Tuesday, October 5, 2010 – The Patrick-Murray Administration today joined Congressman John Olver, Mayor Elaine Pluta, Jack Wilson, President of the University of Massachusetts, Susan Hockfield, President of MIT, Joseph Aoun, President of Northeastern University, Joe Tucci, CEO of EMC, Bruce Klein, Executive Vice President of Cisco, and representatives from Harvard University and Boston University to mark the beginning of construction of the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) in Holyoke’s Innovation District
The next meeting of the Holyoke Innovation District Task Force will be held Wednesday, October 27, 2010 from 2:30-4:30 p.m. at the Holyoke Heritage State Park Visitors Center Exhibit Hall, 221 Appleton Street in Holyoke. For more information, including a map, list of Task Force members, and an agenda when it becomes available, click here.
Governor Deval Patrick was in Western Mass. yesterday in part to celebrate the opening of the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, calling it a “real opportunity to serve as a magnet on a whole host of levels.”