IBM and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), an autonomous scientific society of MeitY, entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on the creation of a joint working group to accelerate High Performance Computing (HPC) in India.
This collaboration is intended to spur and support the growth of India’s developer community, with a focus on processor design, system design, firmware, and application development, including contributions to open source initiatives.
IBM and C-DAC have signed a MoU to promote IBM’s Power processor for HPC applications in India. The partnership aims to collaborate on skilling, competency, and ecosystem building in HPC design research. IBM will work with C-DAC partners to design and build competitive indigenous processors based on the IBM Power architecture, designed for data-intensive, mission-critical workloads. 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.”
