<p style=”margin-bottom: 8px; text-align: center;”><span style=”font-size:14px;”><span style=”line-height:107%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span style=”color:#595959″><b>Source – The economic times</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style=”margin-bottom: 8px; text-align: center;”><span style=”font-size:14px;”><span style=”line-height:107%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span style=”color:#595959″><b>GS Paper – 3</b></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style=”margin-bottom:8px”><span style=”font-size:14px;”><span style=”line-height:107%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span style=”color:#595959″><b>Context</b> – <span style=”background:white”><span style=”font-family:Roboto”><span style=”color:#090909″>the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) commissioned the largest HPC-AI supercomputer. HPC-AI is High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style=”margin-bottom:8px”><span style=”font-size:14px;”><span style=”line-height:107%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span style=”color:#595959″><b><span style=”background:white”><span style=”font-family:Roboto”><span style=”color:#090909″>Highlights</span></span></span></b><span style=”background:white”><span style=”font-family:Roboto”><span style=”color:#090909″> –</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<li style=”margin-left:8px”><span style=”font-size:14px;”><span style=”line-height:107%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span style=”color:#595959″><span style=”background:white”><span style=”font-family:"Faustina","serif"”><span style=”color:black”>This initiative will put India among the top countries in global AI supercomputing research and innovation</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style=”margin-left:8px”><span style=”font-size:14px;”><span style=”line-height:107%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span style=”color:#595959″><span style=”background:white”><span style=”font-family:"Faustina","serif"”><span style=”color:black”>PARAM Siddhi – AI, a large-scale HPC-AI scalable infrastructure will be established under NSM at C-DAC, with support from NitiAayog, Ministry of Electronics and IT, Department of Science and Technology, and the central government. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style=”margin-bottom:8px; margin-left:8px”><span style=”font-size:14px;”><span style=”line-height:107%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span style=”color:#595959″><span style=”background:white”><span style=”font-family:"Faustina","serif"”><span style=”color:black”>It will use NVIDIA Next Generation technology, C-DAC software stack and Cloud platform.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<p style=”margin-left:24px; margin-bottom:8px”><span style=”font-size:14px;”><span style=”line-height:107%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span style=”color:#595959″><b>BENEFITS</b> –</span></span></span></span></p>
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<li style=”margin-left:32px”><span style=”font-size:14px;”><span style=”line-height:107%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span style=”color:#595959″><span style=”background:white”><span style=”font-family:"Faustina","serif"”><span style=”color:black”>It will play a pivotal role in developing a vibrant ecosystem for research and innovation in science and engineering. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style=”margin-left:32px”><span style=”font-size:14px;”><span style=”line-height:107%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span style=”color:#595959″><span style=”background:white”><span style=”font-family:"Faustina","serif"”><span style=”color:black”>With three decades of expertise in AI and augmenting the AI and Language Computing Mission Mode Program of C-DAC, this infrastructure will accelerate experiments and outcomes for India specific grand challenge problems in Health Care, Education, Energy, Cyber Security, Space, Automotive and Agriculture.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style=”margin-left:32px; margin-bottom:8px”><span style=”font-size:14px;”><span style=”line-height:107%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span style=”color:#595959″><span style=”background:white”><span style=”font-family:"Faustina","serif"”><span style=”color:black”> It will catalyze partnerships with the Academia, Industry, MSMEs and Start-ups</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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