AMHERST – Gov. Deval L. Patrick said he would support a sales tax rollback if the state’s financial fortunes improve.
The comment came during a question and answer period following his talk Thursday at the University of Massachusetts where he was the 11th Topol Lecture Series speaker.
AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – Governor Deval Patrick was the last in a round of a dozen speakers in a technology lecture series at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst to honor Sidney Topol.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
By MIKE PLAISANCE
mplaisance@repub.com
HOLYOKE – The group of colleges that is planning to build a more than $100 million high performance computing center in the canal area has yet to decide whether it will make payments in lieu of property taxes to the city, officials said.
The computing center probably will be tax-exempt in terms of how it is organized under state law in which a nonprofit entity will be established to run the facility. But nothing has been finalized, said Tom Testa, assistant vice president with Boston University.
“We’re just still trying to figure out the details … that’s where we stand on any kind of in-lieu-of-taxes payment stuff,” Testa said in a voice-mail message on Tuesday…
Friday, April 16, 2010
By JIM KINNEY
Business writer
HOLYOKE – The scientists and engineers behind the planned high-performance computing center don’t yet know what types of computers will go into that center even though a groundbreaking is set for this fall.
Computer technology moves much too fast for anyone to know now what will be available in two years when the building is completed, said W. Richards Adrion, a professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
But what Adrion and his clients do know is that the new center will have physical space where middle- and high-school students from around the region can come and learn about the world of supercomputers that can in some cases perform quadrillions of calculations a second…
with Kari Njiiri (2010-04-16)
HOLYOKE, MA (wfcr) – A new high performance computing center that is targeted for Holyoke, Massachusetts was the subject of a day-long workshop at Holyoke Community College. WFCR’s Kari Njiiri reports the workshop was convened to explore ways the center can extend its benefits to the greater community. © Copyright 2010, wfcr
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HOLYOKE – The CC gave the gov an “e” on the hpcc.
Translation: City councilors were encouraged as they listened to the remarks of Gov. Deval L. Patrick on March 29 here about the planned high performance computing center.
The birth of Holyoke, Mass., is a classic tale of American capitalism. In the 1840s, financiers from Boston, looking for a new way to make money, decided to build the country’s first planned community along the banks of the Connecticut River. They dammed the river and built canals to create a massive hydro-energy system for a complex of mills that turned out everything from paper to textiles.
HOLYOKE – The owners of the two sites identified as the finalists for a $100 million high performance computing center said they are encouraged as negotiations intensify to win the planned research facility.
The fourth meeting of the Holyoke Innovation District Task Force will be held Thursday, May 13, 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, click here.
View videos from presenters: James Kurose, distinguished professor at the University of Massachusetts, on “Much More Than a Black Box: What is a High Performance Computing Center?”; Kenn Delude, President, Westmass Area Development Corporation, on “A Primer on an Atypical Approach to Site Selection: Understanding the Higher Education Consortium’s Customer-Centric Role in the Holyoke HPCC Site Selection Process;” and Robert Kispert and Carlos Martinez-Vela, John Adams Innovation Institute/MTC, on “Reinventing Local and Regional Economies: Reflections from North Carolina’s Research Triangle Region and the City-Region of Tampere, Finland.”
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