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Thursday, Aug 14, 2003
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Hardware Intel targets grid computing niche Our Bureau
Mr Vijay Keshav, APAC Regional Manager, High Performance Computing, Intel Corp. at a press conference in the Capital on Wednesday. -- Ramesh Sharma
New Delhi , Aug. 13 THE microprocessor giant, Intel has said that `high performance computing' (HPC), a method that pushes the limit of available computing power, is being increasingly adopted in India as an alternative to supercomputing. A number of Indian corporates, research organisations and academia had started to rely on HPC, Mr Vijay Keshav, Industry Solutions Manager - Asia Pacific, Intel, told newspersons here today. Companies such as Tata Motors, research bodies like the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and institutions such as Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, are adopting grid computing, which harnesses computing power in a number of PCs and servers to achieve teraflops of computing power. Mr Keshav claimed HPC, using the grid computing method, would cost only one-fifth of a super computer that offers the same power. "One teraflop of computing power will cost only about $1,00,000-$5,00,000 while a supercomputer of that power may cost millions," he said. Use of grid computing for HPC, which once confined to research labs, now extends to mainstream business the world over. Over 1.5 million PCs in 200-odd countries are now generating teraflops of computing power through this method. In China and Korea, two large HPC projects were currently under way, which networks 1,024 Intel Itanium 2 and 1,024 Intel Xeon processors, respectively, Mr Keshav pointed out. He said in order to push HPC in India, Intel would identify partners from its `Genuine Intel dealers', who would help users deploy grids or clusters. "Our target is to go to the most common researcher with HPC," he said. Software companies such as TCS, Infosys and Satyam are looking at implementing practices around the HPC. Multinational technology firms such as Cadence, Synopsis and Altair Engineering are also focusing on HPC in India. "Large pharmaceutical companies are outsourcing research and development activities to India these days and this is another potential segment for HPC," Mr Keshav said.
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