June 16, 2006
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Rensselaer News (05/10/06)
Nanotechnology research will be the focus of a new supercomputing center on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute that is expected to be up-and-running by the end of the year. Scientists who work at the Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI) will pay close attention to the time and cost of shrinking the dimensions of materials, devices, and systems, as well as the industries that stand to benefit from nanotechnology, including semiconductor makers. "The CCNI will bring together university and industry researchers under one roof to conduct a broad range of computational simulations, from the interactions of atoms and molecules up to the behavior of the complete device," explains Omkaram Nalamasu of Rensselaer. The creation of CCNI is the result of a $100 million partnership between Rensselaer, IBM, Cadence Design Systems, and AMD. CCNI will be the most powerful university-based supercomputer center in the world, with a system comprised of massively parallel Blue Gene supercomputers, POWER-based Linux clusters, and AMD Opteron processor-based clusters, which will yield a speed of 70 teraflops. Such computing muscle will make CCNI one of the top 10 supercomputing centers in the world. In addition to modeling, simulating, and optimizing nanoelectronic devices and circuitry, CCNI will be used for other research projects on campus, such as for biocomputation research.
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