Saturday, March 3, 2012

NEED FOR SPEED SPURS RPI, IBM PARTNERSHIP.(MAIN)

Byline: KEVIN HARLIN Business writer

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and IBM Corp. are partnering on a $33 million research center in Troy to develop infrastructure for the next generation of high-speed, broadband data pipelines and computer networks that will be 1,000 times faster than today's.

IBM will provide the funding and other support over five years to the new Rensselaer Center for Broadband Data Transport Science, RPI announced Tuesday.

The college said the center will be unique because it will look at entire systems from the silicon up, rather than at individual chips or components.

``Currently we have PCs that run at the …

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