This Delhi Institute Is Getting India's 1st AI Supercomputer So Students Can Build Smarter AI

The Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI) in Delhi and NVIDIA have tied up to announce the new CEERI- NVIDIA Centre of Excellence (CNCoE). This is a research lab that will house high-throughput AI computing infrastructure.

The computing systems will be open for CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research)  to use, as well as public and private organizations and industries across the country, to conduct research and development.

The CNCoE lab, for which the MoU was signed today, will be comprised of five NVIDIA DGX-1 AI supercomputers, with a custom deep learning development platform based on NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU accelerators. Basically, it’s a powerful system specially designed to develop, teach, and run artificial intelligence systems over long periods of time.

CSIR employs over 4,000 active scientists in various fields, whom the partnership believes will benefit greatly from CNCoE. Using the advanced systems, they could develop innovational new AI systems for everything from oceanography, drug design, and genomics, to nanotechnology, aeronautics, and agriculture.

“This centre will provide a unique platform for developing AI systems to solve some of the critical problems in healthcare, natural resource management, food production, security and transportation by exploiting multi-dimensional knowledge base available with CSIR and other research organizations in the country,” CSIR-CEERI Director Prof Santanu Chaudhury said. “This CNCoE has the potential to usher in a culture of AI based innovations in a variety of application domains.”