Brendan’s Blog - Last Wednesday, Governor Deval Patrick unveiled the next steps for the massive high-performance computing center planned for downtown Holyoke. I’m glad to say that things are moving forward, and quickly at that. Read the rest of this entry
HOLYOKE – The bright future of the Massachusetts innovation economy was on display on Wednesday, October 21, not in Cambridge, or Boston, but in Holyoke, a historic industrial city in western Massachusetts.
More than 150 people—including residents, local business owners, city officials and students—crowded into the room at the Kittredge Center at Holyoke Community College to witness Governor Deval Patrick announce the go-ahead for the planned construction of the region’s first high performance computing center in a new “innovation district”. Partners in the $100 million undertaking include Cisco, EMC, MIT, Boston University and the University of Massachusetts. Governor Patrick was greeted with a heartfelt, two-minute standing ovation.
