'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
At a gritty industrial site occupied a century ago by a textile mill, five universities are collaborating to install supercomputers that will recreate the start of the universe and perform other research.
The universities will pool resources by using the 90,000-square-foot building, which will be larger than anything they could operate on their own, said Jim Kurose, executive associate dean of the College of Natural Sciences at UMass-Amherst.
"The cobblestone is holding up much better than the blacktop," Kurose said as he entered the construction in late August.
