Center for Computational Innovations
The Center for Computational Innovations (CCI), (formerly the Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations) is a
.Motivation
The center is the result of a $100 million collaboration between
New York State to further nanotechnology innovations. The center's main focus is on reducing the cost associated with the development of nanoscale materials and devices, such as used in the semiconductor industry. The university has also stated the center will also be used for interdisciplinary research in biotechnology, medicine, energy
, and other fields.
Capabilities
At the release of the TOP500 supercomputer rankings in June 2010 the CCI was ranked the 80th most powerful supercomputer in the world, with a peak processing power of 91.75 Teraflops or 91.75 trillion floating point operations per second.[1] When finished, all of the systems at the center will have a combined power surpassing 100 teraflops.
Hardware
The original supercomputer consisted of a series of IBM
TeraFLOPS
of computational power with associated high-speed networking and storage. In April 2013, the CCI Blue Gene/L was decommissioned and powered off.
In August 2012, the CCI installed a 1 rack IBM
Blue Gene/Q containing 16,384 A2 cores. The system was expanded to two racks (32,768 cores) in February 2013 placing at #76 on the June 2013 Top500 list.[2] The system was expanded again to a total of 5 racks (81920 cores) by October 2013 when the new name of the system, AMOS, was announced.[3] Capable of performing over 1.1 petaFLOPS, the 5 rack system placed #38 on the next Top500 list in November 2013.[4]
The CCI connects to the Rensselaer Troy campus and the
peering point
in Manhattan.
References
- ^ "TOP500 List - June 2010 (1-100) – TOP500 Supercomputing Sites". TOP500. May 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-06-02. Retrieved 2010-05-31.
- ^ "Top500 List - June 2013". Retrieved 2014-04-21.
- ^ "Announcement of New Rensselaer Supercomputer, AMOS". Retrieved 2014-04-21.
- ^ "Top500 List - November 2013". Archived from the original on 2013-12-31. Retrieved 2014-04-21.
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