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MGHPCC Moves Forward with Infrastructure for Massachusetts AI Hub Initiative

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Daily News

HOLYOKE — The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) is now accepting proposals for an AI/ML (artificial intelligence and machine learning) compute resource that will support the Massachusetts AI Hub initiative announced in December.

The Massachusetts AI Hub is a groundbreaking effort to accelerate Massachusetts leadership in artificial-intelligence innovation. This initiative aims to support cutting-edge collaboration between government, industry, and academia, pursue solutions to the world’s most critical challenges, and unlock economic opportunity for businesses and residents across the state.

The AI Compute Resource (AICR) Infrastructure System RFP covers the first of three tranches of funding. The tranches target a sequence of systems that will provide foundational infrastructure for the Massachusetts AI Hub initiative. The first deployment in the sequence is expected to be in operation this year. The deadline for responding to the RFP is Thursday, April 17.

The initiative is a public-private partnership with sizable investments from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as Boston University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, the UMass system, and Yale University. The application base for this system includes a wide range of applied AI/ML computational research and innovation.

This range spans the academic community, economic development in the regional early-stage startup community, and strategic areas of the established regional economy, including robotics, national security, financial innovation, education, and health/biotech. Emerging areas, including quantum, fusion, next-generation materials nanotechnologies, and beyond, are also expected to be potential areas of impact.

MGHPCC Expands Computing Access to Researchers Working on COVID-19

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COVID-19 Daily News

HOLYOKE — The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC), operated by a consortium consisting of Boston University, Harvard University, MIT, Northeastern University, and the University of Massachusetts system, announced it will provide access to outside researchers working on projects in which high-speed computing would accelerate resolution of the COVID-19 crisis.

The MGHPCC’s member institutions are already heavily engaged in coronavirus-related research in areas that include understanding the fundamentals of the disease, contributing to the development of vaccines, treatment and tests, and public-health solutions. Much of this research, and most scientific academic research today, rely on high-performance computing.

The MGHPCC, which is among the largest high-performance computing facilities in the country, is now expanding access to its storage and computational systems to academic and commercial enterprises beyond the facility’s member institutions. Total available capacity across all systems includes more than 200,000 CPU cores, 2,000 recent-generation GPUs, and 5 petabytes of temporary storage. The additional work will not impact day-to-day university needs.

“Our goal is to help leverage as many scientific resources as possible to combat this pandemic,” said John Goodhue, executive director of the MGHPCC. “We can enable and support individual teams while also creating opportunities for collaborations that accelerate solutions.”

The MGHPCC consortium is also working with Mass Open Cloud and two of its sponsors, Red Hat and Intel, to launch a site that connects potentially impactful projects with people who have strong computing skills but are unable to work on their regular assignments due to travel restrictions.