May 23, 2006
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Sci-Tech Today
Jay Wrolstad, May 12, 2006 11:10 AM
In an effort to push the envelope in the emerging field of nanotechnology, IBM is lending its support to a research center being created at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).
The $100 million Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI), based at the school's Rensselaer Technology Park in Troy, New York, is designed to further the research in shrinking the devices used by electronics manufacturers, including computer chips, and to provide a place where other industries can explore future uses of atomic-scale technology.
At the heart of this effort is an IBM BluGene supercomputer, which, when built, will be able to perform some 70 trillion calculations per second, a speed that will rank the supercomputer as the most powerful on any university campus.
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