IBM and MeitY’s Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a joint working group to accelerate High Performance Computing (HPC) in India. The collaboration aims to support the growth of India’s developer community, focusing on processor design, system design, firmware, and application development, including open source contributions.
As part of this MoU, both parties will promote IBM’s Power processorfor HPC applications across Indian start-ups, MSMEs, research organizations, and academic institutions.Through the HPC working group,IBM and C-DAC plan to collaborate in several key areas spanning across skilling, competency and ecosystem building in HPC design research across the full technology stack for processor development.
This collaboration aims to enable rapid learning through knowledge sharing, enabling the indigenous developer community to achieve success faster than traditional design iterations and silicon validation, which would require longer timelines. Speaking on the collaboration, Union Minister of State for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Electronics & IT and Jal Shakti, Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar said, “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.”
