Tech Giant IBM and C-DAC Sign Pact for High-Performance Computing in India By CIOTechOutlook Team

Tech Giant IBM and C-DAC Sign Pact for High-Performance Computing in India

CIOTechOutlook Team | Friday, 08 March 2024, 02:36 IST

IBM and service for gadgets and ministry for electronics and IT-backed Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) marked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to make a joint working gathering to speed up high-performance computing (HPC) in India.

“This collaboration is intended to spur and support the growth of India’s developer community, with a focus on processor design, system design, firmware, and application development, including contributions to open source initiatives,” IBM said in a statement.

Through the HPC working gathering, the two intend to address regions like skilling, capability, and ecosystem system working in HPC research across the full innovation stack for processor improvement, it added. Direction to new businesses, support for codevelopment and advancement, and limit building studios will be important for the endeavors.

The accomplices will likewise advance IBM's Power processor among new businesses, MSMEs and exploration and academic firms for HPC applications. The functioning gathering will distinguish accomplices for planning and creating cutthroat native processors in light of the IBM Power engineering which can run data-intensive and crucial jobs, the assertion said.

Minister of state for skill development and entrepreneurship and electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said, “We believe that the future is not only about manufacturing semiconductors but about designing chips and IPs for all industries. We are doubling down on a strategy that includes RISC V and IBM’s Power—these two families will be the Indian families of semiconductors around which we will build multiple applications—microprocessors, IoT among others."

He added that semiconductors are changing the way in which all businesses work and rethinking how ordinary engineering is being planned and utilized, and that India is attempting to turn into a semiconductor center point of the world.