The Massachusetts Green High-Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) is a collaboration of the five major research universities (BU, Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, UMass) in Massachusetts in the area of research computing.
URI has begun multiple “pilot” programs with the MGHPCC with the goal of exploring a longer-term relationship. Not only does a collaboration with the MGHPCC help URI computational researchers benefit from access to the vast and world-class computational resources available, there would also be the potential for broadening research collaborations between Rhode Island and Massachusetts universities, including the submission of new collaborative proposals for funding to several federal agencies.
There currently 4 pilot programs underway that include URI researchers benefiting from UMass’ UNITY cluster, MIT’s SuperCloud cluster, OSN and NESE storage. Moreover, URI is currently in the process of leasing rack-space at the MGHPCC to host computational resources there.
More detail about this partnership is available here: URI-MGHPCC partnership