HOLYOKE – The partners who are planning to build a high performance computing center downtown are enthusiastic about working with the city on the $80 million project, a state official told city councilors Thursday.
HOLYOKE – The partnership of groups that plans to build a high performance computing center in the canal area is uncommonly enthusiastic about working with the city on the $80 million project, a state official told city councilors on Thursday.
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced that it is collaborating with the city of Holyoke, Mass., to establish a cooperative relationship that advances the city’s community vision for revitalization and stability. Faced with familiar urban planning challenges such as unemployment, population loss in the town center to rapid growth in Holyoke suburban neighborhoods, and delivery of services to a moving population, the city of Holyoke is taking an innovative approach in investigating the positive effect that an Internet-based, connected community model can play in helping to revitalize the local economy.
Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) — Wim Elfrink, chief globalization officer at Cisco Systems Inc., talks with Bloomberg’s Margaret Brennan about his company’s performance and business strategy. Elfrink also discusses Cisco’s role in the creation of a “smart city” computing center in Holyoke, Massachusetts. (Source: Bloomberg)
HOLYOKE – Cisco Systems Inc. wants to turn Holyoke into a model showing how Cisco’s communications technologies can help revitalize communities and provide better and more efficient education, public safety, business growth, transportation and health care.
“We’re using technologies to help form our communities and deliver services to our citizens,” said Wim Elfrink, chief globalization officer and executive vice president for Cisco. “We’re using technologies to help form our communities and deliver services to our citizens.
HOLYOKE – Cisco Systems Inc. and the city of Holyoke are partnering to make the city the first Smart + Connected Communities Neighborhood in the United States.
The plan is to use Cisco’s technology to improve health care, education, public safety and economic opportunities in downtown Holyoke. The San Francisco-based company already is working on initiatives to redevelop used mill buildings in Barcelona, Spain, and to renew the Toronto waterfront. This will be Cisco’s first project with a smaller city.
HOLYOKE – One of the private firms involved in the planned $80 million high-performance computing center will discuss a collaboration with the city at a press conference on Wednesday.
Mayor Elaine A. Pluta is scheduled to participate in a tele-conference with Wim Elfrink, executive vice president and globalization officer with Cisco Systems Inc., a computer networking giant.
The second meeting of the Holyoke Innovation District Design and Development Task Force will be held at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 18, 2010 at Holyoke Heritage State Park. A formal agenda will be available approximately a week prior to the meeting date.
For more information about the Task Force and previous meetings, please see “About the Project” on this website.
When BusinessWest launched its Difference Makers program a year ago, it did so with many goals in mind. The first, of course, was to recognize people and institutions making important contributions to the health and well-being of this region. Beyond that, through the telling of their stories, we wanted to inspire others to make a difference as well.
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.
