IIT Kharagpur to Train Indian Engineers, Scientists In High-Performance Computing, AI

IIT Kharagpur to Prepare Indian Engineers, Scientists in HPC And AI

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New Delhi:

Indian Institute of Expertise (IIT) Kharagpur will impart coaching to Indian engineers and scientists in Excessive-Efficiency Computing (HPC) and Synthetic Intelligence (AI) below its new undertaking ‘NSM Nodal Middle for coaching in HPC and AI’ from the Division of Science and Expertise, Authorities of India.

The middle will concentrate on manpower creation and upskilling of scholars, school, scientists,

researchers, scientific customers in giant scale computing throughout completely different science domains, IIT Kharagpur stated.

“Current developments in computational strategies in varied domains and science and engineering have been strongly linked with environment friendly utilization of high-performance computing sources. Due to this fact, it’s important to impart HPC coaching to the researchers working within the software area. However, it is usually vital that engineers and builders engaged on HPC perceive the requirement posed by the area specialists. We’ve already carried out a web based coaching program on the fundamentals of HPC together with different nodal facilities of CDAC which attracted round 800 college students from various backgrounds,” Prof. Somnath Roy, principal investigator of the undertaking at IIT Kharagpur, stated.

IIT Kharagpur hosts a 1.three Petaflop supercomputer named Paramshakti. The Institute has arrange the Middle for Computational and Information Sciences (CCDS) funded by DST to hold out next-generation interdisciplinary analysis and educating actions that contain this state-of-the-art HPC platform.

Additional, ₹ 55.7 Lakh has been authorised for a interval of two years as preliminary funding for the undertaking to run the NSM Nodal middle and conduct coaching applications.

“Our supercomputing facility has enabled a big group of computational scientists for performing large-scale computations inside and outdoors the campus whereas they’re away. We’ve additionally organized a coaching session on GPU computing for customers inside the Institute in collaboration with Nvidia. Extra such coaching applications are additionally in pipeline,” stated Prof. Pabitra Mitra, Head, CCDS, and likewise principal investigator of the undertaking.