Boston has been home to two major “accelerator” program so far: TechStars Boston and Y Combinator. And both of them have focused almost exclusively on start-ups developing Web sites, mobile apps, and software-as-a-service offerings. (Y Combinator, of course, now operates exclusively in Silicon Valley.)
HATFIELD – In an office on the second floor of HitPoint Studios, Eric Ciocca fiddles with a batch of numbers on his laptop, while Audrey Condon is using a digital pen to make a pair of digital pants dance on her PC.
Even before the completion of construction, the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) has sparked research collaboration among Boston’s research universities on a variety of significant scientific challenges, awarding $600,000 in seed grants to seven multi-university teams on issues ranging from the ecosystem off the New England coast to medical imaging to the speed of computing itself.