<s>
The	O
Center	B-Device
for	I-Device
Computational	I-Device
Innovations	I-Device
(	O
CCI	O
)	O
,	O
(	O
formerly	O
the	O
Computational	B-Device
Center	I-Device
for	I-Device
Nanotechnology	I-Device
Innovations	I-Device
)	O
is	O
a	O
supercomputing	B-Architecture
center	O
located	O
at	O
the	O
Rensselaer	O
Technology	O
Park	O
in	O
Troy	O
,	O
New	O
York	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
At	O
the	O
release	O
of	O
the	O
TOP500	B-Operating_System
supercomputer	B-Architecture
rankings	O
in	O
June	O
2010	O
the	O
CCI	O
was	O
ranked	O
the	O
80th	O
most	O
powerful	O
supercomputer	B-Architecture
in	O
the	O
world	O
,	O
with	O
a	O
peak	O
processing	O
power	O
of	O
91.75	O
Teraflops	O
or	O
91.75	O
trillion	O
floating	O
point	O
operations	O
per	O
second	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
original	O
supercomputer	B-Architecture
consisted	O
of	O
a	O
series	O
of	O
IBM	O
BlueGene/L	B-Operating_System
systems	O
which	O
contain	O
a	O
total	O
of	O
32,768	O
PowerPC	O
440	O
700MHz	O
processors	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
is	O
also	O
a	O
heterogeneous	O
array	O
of	O
Power-based	O
Linux	O
machines	O
and	O
AMD	O
Opteron	O
processor-based	O
clusters	O
running	O
on	O
a	O
common	O
file	O
system	O
with	O
the	O
main	O
supercomputer	B-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
April	O
2013	O
,	O
the	O
CCI	O
Blue	B-Operating_System
Gene/L	I-Operating_System
was	O
decommissioned	O
and	O
powered	O
off	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
August	O
2012	O
,	O
the	O
CCI	O
installed	O
a	O
1	O
rack	O
IBM	O
Blue	O
Gene/Q	O
containing	O
16,384	O
A2	B-Device
cores	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
system	O
was	O
expanded	O
to	O
two	O
racks	O
(	O
32,768	O
cores	O
)	O
in	O
February	O
2013	O
placing	O
at	O
#76	O
on	O
the	O
June	O
2013	O
Top500	B-Operating_System
list	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Capable	O
of	O
performing	O
over	O
1.1	O
petaFLOPS	O
,	O
the	O
5	O
rack	O
system	O
placed	O
#38	O
on	O
the	O
next	O
Top500	B-Operating_System
list	O
in	O
November	O
2013	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
CCI	O
connects	O
to	O
the	O
Rensselaer	O
Troy	O
campus	O
and	O
the	O
NYSERNet	O
optical	O
research	O
infrastructure	O
,	O
enabling	O
gigabit/second	O
connections	O
to	O
the	O
Internet	O
and	O
Internet2	O
,	O
National	O
LambdaRail	O
(	O
NLR	O
)	O
,	O
and	O
most	O
of	O
the	O
research	O
networks	O
in	O
the	O
world	O
through	O
a	O
peering	B-Protocol
point	I-Protocol
in	O
Manhattan	O
.	O
</s>
