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cores. The system was expanded to two racks (32,768 cores) in February 2013 placing at #76 on the June 2013 Top500 list. 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. Capable of performing over 1.1 petaFLOPS,
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or 91.75 trillion floating point operations per second. When finished, all of the systems at the center will have a combined power surpassing 100 teraflops.
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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
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systems which contain a total of 32,768 PowerPC 440 700 MHz processors. There is also a heterogeneous array of Power-based Linux machines and
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of computational power with associated high-speed networking and storage. In April 2013, the CCI Blue Gene/L was decommissioned and powered off.
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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
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Opteron processor-based clusters running on a common file system with the main supercomputer. Together, these systems created over 100
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industry. The university has also stated the center will also be used for interdisciplinary research in
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optical research infrastructure, enabling gigabit/second connections to the
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the 5 rack system placed #38 on the next Top500 list in November 2013.
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The center is the result of a $ 100 million collaboration between
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The original supercomputer consisted of a series of IBM
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The CCI connects to the Rensselaer Troy campus and the
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Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies
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Index

supercomputing
Rensselaer Technology Park
Troy
New York
RPI
IBM
New York State
nanotechnology
semiconductor
biotechnology
medicine
energy
TOP500
Teraflops
BlueGene/L
AMD
TeraFLOPS
Blue Gene/Q
A2
NYSERNet
Internet
Internet2
National LambdaRail
peering point
"TOP500 List - June 2010 (1-100) – TOP500 Supercomputing Sites"
TOP500
the original
"Top500 List - June 2013"
"Announcement of New Rensselaer Supercomputer, AMOS"
"Top500 List - November 2013"

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