1. C-DAC Activities at NIT Silchar
Dr. T. R. Lenka
Coordinator, C-DAC
Asst. Professor, Dept. of ECE
National Institute of Technology 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
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4. 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.
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6. 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.
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7. 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.
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8. 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.
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10. 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.
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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.
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15. 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.
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16. 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.
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17. 1st National Symposium on
High Performance Computing
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18. 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.
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19. 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.
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20. 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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