MGHPCC to Showcase Regional Computing and AI Research at SC26

November 3, 2026
Photo of the MGHPCC data center building

The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) will participate in SC26, the international conference on high performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis, this November.

At Booth #3255 and through an online virtual booth, MGHPCC plans to feature more than 75 computationally intensive research projects from member institutions and partners. The showcase spans AI, health and medicine, energy, climate science, materials science, astrophysics, computer science, and other data- and compute-intensive fields.

URI in the showcase

The virtual booth features the following URI research and core profiles:

  • New Insights on Binary Black Holes: Gaurav Khanna, Tousif Islam, and collaborators use simulations to explore how eccentric black hole mergers strengthen the late-time tails of gravitational-wave signals.
  • Inside the Ocean’s Response to Hurricanes: Isaac Ginis and URI’s Hurricane Research Lab investigate how hurricane-driven ocean currents reduce surface-wave heights, with implications for forecasting and hazard preparedness.
  • Seeing Ocean Currents with AI: Nick Pizzo and collaborators’ GOFLOW approach uses AI and satellite thermal imagery to map ocean surface currents, supported by URI–UMass Unity computing resources.
  • Naval and Ocean Renewable Energy Hydrodynamics: Bradford Knight’s group applies computational fluid dynamics and data-driven modeling to vessel dynamics and the design and optimization of turbines that harvest energy from river and ocean currents.
  • Sailing the Symbiosis Seascape: Roxanne Beinart’s lab uses large-scale genomic analysis to study marine animal–microbe partnerships, including how hydrothermal-vent communities responded to the 2022 Hunga volcanic eruption.
  • Rhode Island INBRE Molecular Informatics Core: Led by Christopher Hemme, this statewide resource supports biomedical discovery through bioinformatics, sequencing support, molecular modeling, and advanced data analysis and visualization.

Two additional profiles highlight the infrastructure and institutional support behind this work: the UMass–URI Unity Cluster, a shared high-performance computing and AI resource housed at MGHPCC, and the URI Institute for AI & Computational Research, which fosters interdisciplinary work in AI, data science, high-performance computing, and quantum computing.

For the URI IACR community, the exhibition is a useful window into the regional research-computing ecosystem and the shared infrastructure supporting it, including the AI Compute Resource. Researchers, students, and collaborators can explore project profiles, research highlights, and information about MGHPCC programs through the virtual booth.

Learn more: MGHPCC’s SC26 announcement and the SC26 conference website.