The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) have entered into a memorandum of agreement to foster human resource development in high-performance computing and related fields. This initiative will train 2,500 faculty members from 1,000 engineering colleges across India through 50 faculty development programs. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) aims to incorporate high-performance computing subjects into the curriculum, reaching approximately 50,000 students.
S. Krishnan, Secretary of MeitY, emphasized that the workforce development activity under the National Supercomputing Mission will now extend to a larger audience, boosting the technical workforce’s industry readiness. C-DAC and AICTE will also conduct training and refresher programs to prepare ‘master trainers’ who will, in turn, train faculty members on high-performance computing instruction. Quality improvement programs will further enhance the expertise of faculty in high-performance computing, even for those from non-computer science disciplines.
High-performance computing courses will be offered on the Ministry of Education’s Swayam platform, which provides free online courses in various subjects. MeitY noted that these courses would be designed to meet current and future industry needs. C-DAC will make its high-performance computing learning platforms, such as PARAM Shavak and PARAM Vidya, available through AICTE to selected institutions.
Additionally, MeitY has planned awareness programs to introduce high-performance computing in around 1,000 colleges, targeting 100,000 students. To further support this initiative, MeitY proposed installing 50 PARAM Shavak systems—’Supercomputing Solution in a Box’ by C-DAC—in AICTE-affiliated institutions. This extensive initiative aims to significantly enhance high-performance computing capabilities within India’s technical education sector.
Source-Business Standard
