The Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, said on Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding with the Center for Advanced Computing Development (C-DAC), Pune, to establish a 17 million rupee supercomputing facility.
The MoU was signed by the Director of the IIT-G, TG Sitharam, and the Director General of the C-DAC, Hemant Darbari, during a virtual event in the presence of the ministers of the Union.
The agreement is for a period of five years, IIT-G said in a statement.
The new supercomputer with “650 TFLOPS is more powerful and technologically superior facility”, which will play an important role in the field of scientific and engineering applications, he said.
The IIT-G Computing and Communications Center is already equipped with ‘Param Ishan’, a ‘250 TF’ supercomputer.
The institute will organize training courses to popularize the use and applications of supercomputers in the northeast region, according to the statement.
“We are also planning to link this facility with our new interdisciplinary master program in data science jointly initiated by the Departments of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering and Mathematics,” added Sitharam.
The supercomputing facility is part of the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).
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