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As the Department of Artificial Intelligence at IIT Hyderabad continues to grow by leaps and bounds, the department has recently procured new state-of-the-art technology and infrastructure. This includes an AI center, funded by the support of Honeywell and the Japan International Cooperation Agency, consisting of various GPU-based servers for carrying out cutting-edge research. In addition, the department also recently entered into close collaboration with NVIDIA to establish an NVIDIA Artificial Intelligence Technology Centre (NVAITC), the first of its kind in India.
Facility for AI Supercomputers
The newly established AI center consists of computing facilities such as NVIDIA DGX-1s and DGX-2s, which are widely reputed AI supercomputers. The DGX-1 comprises 8 NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs and provides GPU computing power of 1 PetaFLOPS. On the other hand, DGX-2 is the world’s first 2 PetaFLOPS system integrating 16 NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs, enabling one to work with large training datasets. This center would focus on accelerating research in AI at the institute. For reference visit Nvidia DGX.
India's first NVAITC - a collaboration with NVIDIA
India’s first NVAITC, a center of collaboration between researchers at IIT-Hyderabad and NVIDIA, was inaugurated on 9th July 2020. The institute has already procured three NVIDIA DGX-1TM systems and two NVIDIA DGX-2TM systems and would soon procure more such servers. The establishment of the center has led researchers to pursue research projects of importance to societal needs. Research and projects related to agriculture in AI, smart cities, intelligent transport, and Indian language understanding are underway, and have already led to the publication of some jointly authored papers. Projects that will be taken up soon include increasing crop yield using AI algorithms and applying AI-based solutions to support safer transportation systems and better ways of managing traffic, among others.
AI Research Center
The AI department at IIT-Hyderabad has been recognized for pioneering efforts in AI pedagogy and research, including its BTech, MTech and PhD programs in AI, as well as interdisciplinary AI research. This effort has inspired many other institutions across the country to launch similar programs.
To support the research activities of the AI department, a Centre for Research and Innovation in AI (कर्त्रीया) has now been established with the support of JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) and Honeywell. This AI कर्त्रीया Centre — in addition to seating areas, classrooms and conference rooms for researchers — houses a mini-data centre with high-end computational facilities to meet the ever-increasing demand of researchers associated with the AI department at IIT Hyderabad.
With various GPU servers and the deep learning supercomputers NVIDIA DGX1 and DGX2, the data centre supports upto 250 TFlops of GPU computing power. This centre will be used by faculty, research staff and students at IIT Hyderabad to carry out state-of-the art AI research in-house, as well as in partnership with its collaborators in government and the industry.
