New Delhi: The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) have inked a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) to develop human resources in High Performance Computing (HPC) and allied fields.
Prof. T. G. Sitharam, Chairman of the AICTE, and Col. Asheet Nath (Retd.), Executive Director of CDAC Pune signed the Memorandum of Agreement. The signed it in the presence of S. Krishnan, Secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). According to S. Krishnan, the programme will provide HPCaware manpower development to engineering colleges across the country.
Key activities under the MoA include:
- Master Trainer Programs: Training master trainers who will then train faculty members.
- Quality Improvement Programs: Enhancing HPC expertise for faculty from nonComputer Science streams.
- Courses on SWAYAM: Offering HPC courses on the Ministry of Education’s SWAYAM platform.
- Industry Aligned Courses: Designing HPC courses to meet industry requirements.
- CDAC Developed HPC Platforms: Offering designated institutes HPC learning platforms via AICTE.
The collaboration intends to train 2,500 academics from 1,000 engineering colleges who will instruct roughly 50,000 students in HPC subjects. An estimated 100,000 students across 1,000 colleges would be introduced to HPC through awareness programmes, and 50 PARAM Shavak units will be deployed at AICTE-affiliated institutions.
