cdac activities at nit silchar indest

C-DAC Activities at NIT Silchar

Dr. T. R. Lenka

Coordinator, C-DAC

Asst. Professor, Dept. of ECE

National Institute of Technology Silchar

April 10, 2023 Dr. T R Lenka, Dept of ECE, NIT Silchar [2]

• Establishment of C-DAC Centre in North East at NIT Silchar, 21st Feb 2014

• Establishment of NITS Supercomputing Centre at NIT Silchar, 05th Apr 2014


Establishment of

C-DAC Centre in North East at NIT Silchar


Establishment of C-DAC Centre

• The 11th C-DAC Centre in NE India established at NIT Silchar Campus.

• Inaugurated on 21st Feb, 2014 – Hon’ble Secretary, Sri J. Satyanarayana,

DeitY, MCIT, Govt. of India– Prof. Rajat Moona, DG, C-DAC, – Dr. Pradeep K Sinha, Sr. Director, C-DAC.

• Secretary’s views: Focus should be in one of the sixth Thematic areas of C-DAC.


Inauguration of C-DAC Centre


Current Activities

• Coordination & deployment of C-DAC Technologies in North East.

• Coordination on development of MIS for NIT Silchar and other NIT’s by C-DAC, Pune.

• Identification and offer of suitable C-DAC Diploma courses.

• Conduct of orientation program for NIT Silchar to provide the glimpses of various C-DAC PG Diploma courses.


Current Activities

• Offering Summer Internship to students of NIT Silchar at C-DAC Corporate and C-DAC Silchar.

• Conduct of skill development program for NE.• Execution of Joint Research Programmes

between C-DAC Silchar and NIT Silchar.• Exploration the possibility of developing web

based solutions for facilitating Police Force and other Law Enforcement Agencies in NE.


Activities Done

• 16 Students of NIT Silchar (CSE & ECE) got summer internship at C-DAC Pune from 15th May - 30th June 2014.

• Round table meet held for academia of NE region at NIT Silchar on 4th April, 2014.– Director, NIT Manipur was part of this round table meet.

• Joint research & PhD Guidance for Faculty of NIT Silchar.


Establishment of

NITS Supercomputing Centre


Establishment of HPC Centre

• MOU was signed between NIT Silchar and CDAC Pune on 25th May 2013 to establish HPC Centre at NIT Silchar.

• The state-of-the-art HPC Data Centre built by Sify Technologies, Kolkata and Servers/Clusters supplied by Netweb Technologies, New Delhi by open tender.

April 10, 2023 [11]

Inauguration of NITS Supercomputing Centre

• NITS Supercomputing Centre: The Centre of Excellence in High Performance Computing.

• Inaugurated on 05th Apr 2014– Hon’ble JS&FA, Sri Yogendra Tripathy, MHRD, Govt.

of India

– Prof. L. M. Patnaik (FIEEE), IISc, Bangalore

– Dr. Pradeep K. Sinha, (FIEEE, ACM Distinguished Engineer), Sr. Director, C-DAC.

Dr. T R Lenka, Dept of ECE, NIT Silchar


Inauguration of NITS Supercomputing Centre

Infiniband Switch

Gigabit Ethernet Switch

Master Node for HPC cluster

12 Compute Nodes

SATA Based Storage 80TB

Management Workstation

Management Switch

Gigabit EthernetInfinibandManagement

2 GPGPU Node (Each Node with 2 nVidia GPGPU Cards)

2 Intel Xeon Phi Node (Each Node with 2 Intel Xeon Phi

Cards)



Specifications of NITS Supercomputing Centre

• NITS Supercomputing Centre is established in collaboration with C-DAC & it is one of the most powerful system in the North East India.

• Equipped with x86_64 bit based latest Intel Ivy Bridge processing and Accelerator (Intel Xeon Phi and Nvidia Kepler based Co-processing technologies).

• Interconnected with Mellanox FDR Infiniband with RHEL OS on servers.

• IBM Platform Computing (Job Scheduler, Cluster Manager, Integrated Portal for Job Submission) and Intel Cluster Studio having a compute power of approximately 15 Tera Flops.


Symposium/Workshops Organized

• 1st One Week National Symposium on High Performance Computing & Workshop on Parallel Computing held from 04th - 09th Apr 2014 in association with C-DAC Pune.

• Inaugurated by – Prof. L. M. Patnaik, IISc, Bangalore, – Dr. Pradeep K. Sinha, Sr. Director, C-DAC – Srinivas S. Tadigadapa, Director, Intel South Asia.

• Hands-on-Training on MPI & Parallel Programming provided to the students/ participants of NIT Silchar and Assam University.


1st National Symposium on High Performance Computing


Joint Interdisciplinary Research

• Formation of Interdisciplinary Research Computing Group (IRCG).

• Joint research projects between NIT Silchar and C-DAC are under process.

• Two Engineers (Application Engineer and Network Administrator) from C-DAC are deputed at NIT Silchar for 1 Year as per MOU.


Social Responsibility

• Interconnecting Guwahati, Jorhat, Sibsagar and other parts of Assam through HPC facility of NIT Silchar.

• Facilitate the researchers/scholars/faculties of National Laboratories, Universities of NE for high-end Interdisciplinary Computational Science & Engineering Research.

• Summer Training from 25th June to 25th July 2014 using HPC facility at NIT Silchar in collaboration with C-DAC Silchar.


Achievements

• NITS Supercomputing Centre is well recognized by Intel and proposed to be a globally recognized Centre.

• NITS Supercomputing Centre is in the race of 4500 Crore National HPC Mission by Dr. P. K. Sinha, Sr. Director, C-DAC.

• One Day Workshop sponsored by Intel will be organized in 28th Aug 2014 at NIT Silchar.

• Proposed One Day Workshop on NVIDIA.


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