10,000 GPUs under India AI mission to be in place over 18-24 months: IT Secretary
Tie-Con Delhi-NCR, Electronics and IT Secretary S Krishnan said that the government will invite bids from the industry under the mission and provide viability gap funding for GPU-based computing infrastructure.
«The entire GPU approved under the mission will be made available in the next 18-24 months,» Krishnan said.
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Offering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIM KozhikodeIIMK Advanced Data Science For ManagersVisitIndian School of BusinessISB Product ManagementVisitIIM LucknowIIML Executive Programme in FinTech, Banking & Applied Risk ManagementVisitThe Cabinet has approved the India AI Mission with an outlay of Rs 10,372 crore for five years to encourage AI development in the country.
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Under the mission. supercomputing capacity, comprising over 10,000 GPUs (graphics processing units), will be made available to various stakeholders for creating an AI ecosystem.
The demand for GPU-based servers has increased as they can process data at a higher speed compared to CPU-based servers.
Startups, academia, researchers and industry will be given access to the AI supercomputing infrastructure established under the India AI Mission.
