Building connections across the research infrastructure

MIT.nano hosted the 2026 NEMO User Meeting on Oct. 5–6, bringing together 65 representatives from 25 laboratories and organizations to share approaches to lab management around the open-source NEMO platform. MIT.nano also presented Hydra, a new open-source platform developed with support from the Northeast Microelectronics Coalition that connects multiple NEMO installations and draws information directly from facilities' existing management systems to make capabilities discoverable across facilities. NEMO, originally released as open-source software by NIST in 2018, supports more than 1,600 active researchers using more than 200 tools at MIT.nano alone.