A key government tech research body plans to give access to super computing research across 200 educational institutes in the country.
Garuda, an initiative by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) along with National Informatics Centre (NIC) plans to extend their ‘grid computing initiative’ from the existing 65 institutes to 200 in the next couple of years.
C-DAC’s grid computing initiative is a collection of high performance computing resources that are spread across different cities and allows access to super computing research.
Grid computing played a big role in the recent discovery of the ‘God particle’ as scientists across the world collaborated with each other.
Access to resources such as storage, IT networking and high end servers that can compute in excess of a trillion calculations per second, used in areas such as numerical weather simulations or drug discovery are provided by C-DAC. Due to high costs and maintenance of hardware and software, educational institutes could not afford to undertake research. More details here