New Delhi, Oct 12 (KNN) For establishing Supercomputing Infrastructure with Assembly and Manufacturing in India and to develop Critical Components, Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs) was signed in presence of Sanjay Dhotre, Union Minister of State for E&IT Education and Communications, on Monday between Hemant Darbari, Director General, C-DAC and Director of National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) Host Institutes.

Ajay Prakash Sawhney, Secretary, MeitY, Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary, DST, Jyoti Arora, Special Secretary & FA, MeitY, Rajendra Kumar, Additional Secretary, MeitY, senior officials from DST, MeitY, C-DAC and Host Institutes were present in the event.

Sanjay Dhotre said, “ Under the visionary  leadership of Prime Minister Narendraji Modi, National Supercomputing Mission was set up  to provide necessary computational power to the Academia, Industry, Scientific and Research Community, MSME and the Start-ups to solve India specific grand challenges and complex real-life problems in Science and Engineering.

C-DAC has already established Supercomputing Ecosystem at IIT BHU, IIT Kharagpur, IISER Pune and JNCASR Bangalore. And now accelerating the pace of research and innovation using computational science techniques with manufacturing in India.

Critical Supercomputing components like the Server Board, Interconnect, Rack power controllers and Hydraulic controllers, Direct Liquid Cooled Datacenter, HPC Software Stack is a step towards Atmanirbhar Bharat”

Hemant Darbari, Director General, C-DAC mentioned that “National premier academic and research institutes like the IISc, IITs, NIT, NABI are par excellence and is renowned globally for its technical expertise.”

“We are proud to partner with them in our endeavour to enhance India's capability, empower scientists and researchers with state-of-the-art Supercomputing facilities, attain global competitiveness and ensure self-reliance in the strategic area of Supercomputing Technology leading towards the Exascale Computing” he added.

Hemant Dabri said “Our Mission is to Establish Dependable and Secure Exa-Scale Eco-system with innovative designs, disruptive technologies and Expert Human resource. Our goal is to develop our own indigenous Hardware encompassing Exascale Chip Design, Design and Manufacture of Exascale Server Boards, Exascale Interconnects and Storage including Silicon-Photonics at C-DAC in-line with Atmanirbhar Bharat to achieve complete Self Reliance.”