The IACoEICT to be created by C-DAC with assistance from the Government of India includes the deployment of the indigenously developed PARAM Supercomputer of C-DAC in the High Performance Computing Centre and the training of nearly 1000 IT professionals per year.
Under the terms of the agreement, the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India has identified C-DAC as an implementing agency for the following:
Establishment of India – Armenia Centre of Excellence in ICT (IACoEICT) at Yerevan.
Establishment of HPC Centre with PARAM Supercomputer for collaborative research in the areas of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Bioinformatics, Weather Forecasting and Evolutionary Computing by Scientists, Researchers and Academic users.
Exchange of experts and training of Armenian professionals in India and Armenia for managing the technical infrastructure installed under the project and training of trainers and students at IACoEICT.
Addressing the media, Shri. Divyabh Manchanda, Additional Secretary (Eurasia), MEA, Government of India said, “This centre is proposed to be a major facility for the development of human resources in IT not only in Armenia but also in the entire Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region. IACoEICT will offer fundamental and advanced IT courses of C-DAC to the students of Armenia.”
A training programme for six months will be imparted to the trainers and faculty identified by Government of Armenia in India at C-DAC’s training facility in Pune.
Speaking on the occasion, Shri. Rajan T Joseph, Director General, C-DAC said “The establishment of this centre of excellence will help Armenia in taking advantage of the developments in the field of IT, right from the grassroots level to the highly complex arena of High Performance Computing (HPC). The centre shall serve as a core building block and a catalyst to enable widespread reach of high quality research and education in Armenia.”
“The establishment of IACoEICT will help Government of Armenia to deliver IT education and to enable access to HPC and related areas to the scientific community. Exchange of experts and trainings will help upgrade skills and facilitate the creation of a huge pool of talent in the field of IT & HPC,” he added.
“A fully functional IT centre will be working under Enterprise Incubator Foundation (EIF) at Yerevan. The IT centre will have the state-of-the-art Data Centre with high performance computing infrastructure, Hi-tech computer labs and Lecture Theaters, e-Learning with Video Conferencing facility and a rich library. The video conferencing facility will also be used for organizing specialized training program between IACoEICT and C-DAC in India” Sh. Abhinav Dixit, Team Coordinator – ACMS & in-charge International Cooperation Division, C-DAC added.
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About C-DAC:
The advent of the Information Technology, Telecommunications and the Electronics revolution has ushered in an era of expectations for the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in terms of technological innovations and challenges. Today, C-DAC has emerged as a multi-disciplinary, core research and development (R&D) destination for the design, development and deployment of advanced IT products and technologies.
With a strong manpower base spread across the country at its 10 R&D centres in Bangalore, Chennai, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mohali, Mumbai, Noida, Pune, Thiruvananthapuram with a corporate office at Pune, the focus is on consolidating the R&D work to enable a better market reach.
The inception of C-DAC in March 1988 has seen the institution grow from strength to strength and leverage its core expertise to develop its capabilities in a multitude of technology domains. Simultaneously, it has also been a fruitful exercise in brand building for C-DAC, as it has consolidated its capabilities into a brand to make C-DAC an R&D institution of national and international repute working in advanced areas of electronics and information technology and developing and deploying IT products and solutions for diverse sectors of the economy.
C-DAC has defined the common methodology towards building the concept of a premier R&D organization and identified opportunities for establishing linkages across disciplines, to create a broad portfolio of technologies under one umbrella. This portfolio envisages a range of technologies such as High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) including Scientific Modeling and Visualization, Multilingual Computing, Applied Artificial Intelligence and Speech Processing, Software including Open Source Software (Linux), Multimedia, Graphics and Database Technologies, Strategic and Power Electronics and Agri-electronics, Real Time Systems, Embedded Systems and VLSI Design, Health Informatics, Geomatics, Cyber Security, Digital / Broadband and Wireless Networks, e-Governance and ICT for Digital Divide, and Education and Training including e-Learning.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Abhinav Dixit
Quelle/Source: TechWhack, 16.07.2009
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