1. C-DAC Activities at NIT Silchar
Dr. T. R. Lenka
Coordinator, C-DAC
Asst. Professor, Dept. of ECE
National Institute of Technology Silchar

2. • Establishment of C-DAC Centre in North
East at NIT Silchar, 21st Feb 2014
• Establishment of NITS Supercomputing
Centre at NIT Silchar, 05th Apr 2014
29 May 2014 Dr. T R Lenka, Dept of ECE, NIT Silchar

3. Establishment
of
C-DAC Centre in North East
at NIT Silchar
39 May 2014 Dr. T R Lenka, Dept of ECE, NIT Silchar

4. Establishment of C-DAC Centre
• The 11th C-DAC Centre in NE India established
at NIT Silchar Campus.
• Inaugurated on 21st Feb, 2014
– Hon’ble Secretary, Sri J. Satyanarayana,
DeitY, MCIT, Govt. of India
– Prof. Rajat Moona, DG, C-DAC,
– Dr. Pradeep K Sinha, Sr. Director, C-DAC.
• Secretary’s views: Focus should be in one of
the sixth Thematic areas of C-DAC.
49 May 2014 Dr. T R Lenka, Dept of ECE, NIT Silchar

5. Inauguration of C-DAC Centre
59 May 2014 Dr. T R Lenka, Dept of ECE, NIT Silchar

6. Current Activities
• Coordination & deployment of C-DAC
Technologies in North East.
• Coordination on development of MIS for NIT
Silchar and other NIT’s by C-DAC, Pune.
• Identification and offer of suitable C-DAC
Diploma courses.
• Conduct of orientation program for NIT Silchar
to provide the glimpses of various C-DAC PG
Diploma courses.
69 May 2014 Dr. T R Lenka, Dept of ECE, NIT Silchar

7. Current Activities
• Offering Summer Internship to students of NIT
Silchar at C-DAC Corporate and C-DAC Silchar.
• Conduct of skill development program for NE.
• Execution of Joint Research Programmes
between C-DAC Silchar and NIT Silchar.
• Exploration the possibility of developing web
based solutions for facilitating Police Force
and other Law Enforcement Agencies in NE.
79 May 2014 Dr. T R Lenka, Dept of ECE, NIT Silchar

8. Activities Done
• 16 Students of NIT Silchar (CSE & ECE) got
summer internship at C-DAC Pune from 15th May
- 30th June 2014.
• Round table meet held for academia of NE region
at NIT Silchar on 4th April, 2014.
– Director, NIT Manipur was part of this round table
meet.
• Joint research & PhD Guidance for Faculty of NIT
Silchar.
89 May 2014 Dr. T R Lenka, Dept of ECE, NIT Silchar

9. Establishment
of
NITS Supercomputing Centre
99 May 2014 Dr. T R Lenka, Dept of ECE, NIT Silchar

10. Establishment of HPC Centre
• MOU was signed between NIT Silchar and
CDAC Pune on 25th May 2013 to establish HPC
Centre at NIT Silchar.
• The state-of-the-art HPC Data Centre built by
Sify Technologies, Kolkata and Servers/Clusters
supplied by Netweb Technologies, New Delhi
by open tender.
109 May 2014 Dr. T R Lenka, Dept of ECE, NIT Silchar

11. Inauguration of
NITS Supercomputing Centre
• NITS Supercomputing Centre: The Centre of
Excellence in High Performance Computing.
• Inaugurated on 05th Apr 2014
– Hon’ble JS&FA, Sri Yogendra Tripathy, MHRD, Govt.
of India
– Prof. L. M. Patnaik (FIEEE), IISc, Bangalore
– Dr. Pradeep K. Sinha, (FIEEE, ACM Distinguished
Engineer), Sr. Director, C-DAC.
119 May 2014 Dr. T R Lenka, Dept of ECE, NIT Silchar

12. Inauguration of
NITS Supercomputing Centre
129 May 2014 Dr. T R Lenka, Dept of ECE, NIT Silchar

13. Infiniband Switch
Gigabit Ethernet Switch
Master Node for HPC cluster
12 Compute Nodes
SATA Based Storage 80TB
Management Workstation
Management Switch
Gigabit Ethernet
Infiniband
Management
2 GPGPU Node (Each Node
with 2 nVidia GPGPU Cards)
2 Intel Xeon Phi Node (Each
Node with 2 Intel Xeon Phi
Cards)
NITS Supercomputing Centre

14. NITS Supercomputing Centre
149 May 2014 Dr. T R Lenka, Dept of ECE, NIT Silchar

15. Specifications of
NITS Supercomputing Centre
• NITS Supercomputing Centre is established in
collaboration with C-DAC & it is one of the most
powerful system in the North East India.
• Equipped with x86_64 bit based latest Intel Ivy
Bridge processing and Accelerator (Intel Xeon Phi and
Nvidia Kepler based Co-processing technologies).
• Interconnected with Mellanox FDR Infiniband with
RHEL OS on servers.
• IBM Platform Computing (Job Scheduler, Cluster
Manager, Integrated Portal for Job Submission) and
Intel Cluster Studio having a compute power of
approximately 15 Tera Flops.
159 May 2014 Dr. T R Lenka, Dept of ECE, NIT Silchar

16. Symposium/Workshops Organized
• 1st One Week National Symposium on High
Performance Computing & Workshop on Parallel
Computing held from 04th - 09th Apr 2014 in
association with C-DAC Pune.
• Inaugurated by
– Prof. L. M. Patnaik, IISc, Bangalore,
– Dr. Pradeep K. Sinha, Sr. Director, C-DAC
– Srinivas S. Tadigadapa, Director, Intel South Asia.
• Hands-on-Training on MPI & Parallel
Programming provided to the students/
participants of NIT Silchar and Assam University.
169 May 2014 Dr. T R Lenka, Dept of ECE, NIT Silchar

17. 1st National Symposium on
High Performance Computing
179 May 2014 Dr. T R Lenka, Dept of ECE, NIT Silchar

18. Joint Interdisciplinary Research
• Formation of Interdisciplinary Research
Computing Group (IRCG).
• Joint research projects between NIT Silchar
and C-DAC are under process.
• Two Engineers (Application Engineer and
Network Administrator) from C-DAC are
deputed at NIT Silchar for 1 Year as per MOU.
189 May 2014 Dr. T R Lenka, Dept of ECE, NIT Silchar

19. Social Responsibility
• Interconnecting Guwahati, Jorhat, Sibsagar and
other parts of Assam through HPC facility of NIT
Silchar.
• Facilitate the researchers/scholars/faculties of
National Laboratories, Universities of NE for high-
end Interdisciplinary Computational Science &
Engineering Research.
• Summer Training from 25th June to 25th July 2014
using HPC facility at NIT Silchar in collaboration
with C-DAC Silchar.
199 May 2014 Dr. T R Lenka, Dept of ECE, NIT Silchar

20. Achievements
• NITS Supercomputing Centre is well
recognized by Intel and proposed to be a
globally recognized Centre.
• NITS Supercomputing Centre is in the race of
4500 Crore National HPC Mission by Dr. P. K.
Sinha, Sr. Director, C-DAC.
• One Day Workshop sponsored by Intel will be
organized in 28th Aug 2014 at NIT Silchar.
• Proposed One Day Workshop on NVIDIA.
209 May 2014 Dr. T R Lenka, Dept of ECE, NIT Silchar

21. Thanks!
219 May 2014 Dr. T R Lenka, Dept of ECE, NIT Silchar