NVIDIA has named the Indian Institute of Technology
Bombay as the first CUDA Center of Excellence (CCOE) in the country.
The
CCOE designation is the highest honor given to institutions for
ground-breaking educational programs and research using NVIDIA GPU
accelerators and the NVIDIA CUDA parallel programming environment.
Recognized
around the world as a leader in engineering education and research, IIT
Bombay joins 21 elite institutions worldwide that have demonstrated a
vision for advancing the use of accelerated computing, which empowers
academics, engineers and scientists to drive innovation and breakthrough
scientific discovery.
As
a CCOE, IIT Bombay will utilize equipment, grants and resources
provided by NVIDIA to support research projects in a variety of fields,
including climate and ocean modeling, bioinformatics, circuit
simulation, computer/GPU architecture, computer graphics and vision,
computational fluid dynamics and molecular fluid dynamics. Work in these
areas spans several engineering and science departments at IIT Bombay,
including, aerospace, bio-science, chemistry, chemical, climate studies,
computer science, electrical, mathematics, mechanical engineering,
physics, and systems and control.
IIT
Bombay, a fountainhead of new ideas and innovations in technology and
science in India, will leverage its CCOE status to advance the state of
parallel computing education in India, and to prepare the next
generation of researchers for the expanding world of accelerated
computing.
“Being
associated with the world’s foremost academic institutions bears
testimony to IIT Bombay’s continuous efforts in championing new
approaches to computing with India’s academic, scientific and
engineering communities,” said Professor Dr. P. S. V. Nataraj, Systems
and Control Engineering Group, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
“As the world embraces GPU-accelerated computing, IIT Bombay with
NVIDIA’s support will continue its efforts to proliferate the
technology, keeping the country at the very leading edge of science.”
“GPU-accelerated
computing has passed the tipping point to become mainstream technology
driving innovation and discovery around the world in science,
engineering and big data analytics,” said Vishal Dhupar, managing
director of NVIDIA South Asia. “Our collaboration with IIT Bombay and
over a dozen institutions across India reinforces NVIDIA’s commitment to
establishing a strong ecosystem that will advance the country’s
research across a range of scientific and engineering fields.”
The
NVIDIA CCOE program recognizes, rewards and fosters collaboration with
leading institutions at the forefront of parallel computing research.
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