Founding Members

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, IBM, and New York State

Industrial Partners

Leading nanoelectronics and nanotechnology companies. 
Cadence Design Systems is the charter member. 

Funding

Total investment over five years: $100 million

Rensselaer and partner companies: $34 million
IBM: $33 million
New York State: $33 million

Location

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and its Rensselaer Technology Park

Equipment

The CCNI system will be made up of massively parallel Blue Gene supercomputers, POWER-based Linux clusters, and Opteron-based clusters, providing more than 70 teraflops of computing muscle.

Economic Impact

• CCNI will be among the top 10 supercomputing centers of any kind, and will be the most powerful university-based computing center in the world.
• 300-500 high technology jobs are expected to be created directly as a result of the establishment of the CCNI.
• By offering world class science and technology research facilities, and expanding the intellectual vibrancy of the region, CCNI is expected to attract dozens of new computation based start-ups, along with small, medium and large corporations, which would add to the number of high paying technology jobs in the region. 
• CCNI will accelerate the momentum in transforming the NY State Capital District into a high technology destination of choice for R&D, and manufacturing for the nanotechnology and semiconductor industry.
• CCNI’s world class simulation competencies coupled with fabrication capabilities in the New York Center of Excellence at Albany Nanotech will provide industry a total solution from virtual to physical device fabrication.
• CCNI will further amplify the economic growth stimulated by New York State investments in Gen*NY*sis centers, Centers of Excellence, and Centers for Advanced Technologies.
• CCNI has committed a significant fraction of its computational bandwidth for encouraging, attracting, and nurturing start-ups, and small and medium size companies in NY State.
• CCNI will leverage significant Federal and corporate research support to New York State and the Capital Region.