Bay State logs in super servers

Amid a worldwide push to make energy-eating data centers more efficient, a new environmentally friendly computing facility backed by the state officially opens for business today.

The Massachustts Green High Performance Computing Center is a 90,000-square-foot, $90 million server warehouse located in Holyoke. It has a total power capacity of 15 Megawatts, with more than 70 percent of its electricity supply generated by hydroelectric power.

For university researchers throughout the Bay State, the center will supply new, badly needed computing capacity for large-scale data projects such as human genome analysis and climate modeling.

Constructed in partnership with colleges including Boston University, Harvard University, MIT, the University of Massachusetts and Northeastern University, as well as EMC Corp. and Cisco, the center will host Gov. Deval Patrick and other dignitaries at its unveiling this afternoon.

"This landmark project is a testament to what is possible when government, academia and business work together," Patrick said. "And it will serve as an economic development model for the state and the nation for generations to come."

Academic researchers will begin moving their servers into the facility in the coming weeks.

Among them is a group of four scientists who recently won a $2.3 million grant to support research in areas including life sciences, genetics, weather modeling, geosciences and engineering.

"It's really a resource for the broad campus community," said UMass Amherst computer science researcher Prashant Shenoy, one of the grant recipients. "Our intent is to have a way for all our campuses to benefit from and use this cluster, which we think of as an academic cloud."

The center, which generated 400 construction jobs, marks the latest effort by the Patrick administration to boost the economies of long-neglected towns in western Massachusetts.

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