‘Tejaswi’ launched at Cusat

Higher Education Minister R. Bindu inaugurated ‘Tejaswi’, a hybrid high-performance computing (HPC) facility, at Cochin University of Science and Technology (Cusat) here on Monday.

She said that both Tejaswi and the Cusat Analytical Instruments Facility (CAIF) would be great assets for the future scientific progress of the university. Vice-Chancellor M. Junaid Bushiri presided, according to a release.

The HPC has a sustained capacity of 350 teraflops and comprises 102 compute nodes, nine GPU nodes, and two petabytes of file storage. It will support advanced research in climate modelling, computational engineering, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

It was set up utilising an assistance of ₹26 crore under the ₹230 crore allocated by the Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board. Of this, ₹118 crore has been utilised for procuring advanced research instruments.

These instruments, along with other sophisticated facilities across various departments, have been integrated into the CAIF. A total of 206 advanced instruments are available through the facility, according to the release.