NVIDIA has reportedly said that it has named the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay as the first CUDA Center of Excellence (CCOE) in the country. The institute, according to NVIDIA, has bagged the recognition due to its groundbreaking educational programs and research using NVIDIA GPU accelerators and the NVIDIA CUDA parallel programming environment.
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 modelling, 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.
“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. 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,” said Vishal Dhupar, Managing Director, NVIDIA South Asia.
IIT Bombay 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.
The NVIDIA CCOE program recognizes rewards and fosters collaboration with the leading institutions at the forefront of parallel computing research.
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