Govt to soon approach cabinet for Rs 10,000 crore supercomputing hub plan: Rajeev Chandrasekhar
quantum computing hubs in the country in a public-private partnership mode, the minister of state for electronics and information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said.
“The quantum (of funds) is more than Rs 10,000 crore. It will be presented before the cabinet for approval soon. The IT ministry is proposing this and this will include setting up of GPUs (graphics processing units) in PPP mode with data centres in the private space and public data centres under CDAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing),” Chandrasekhar told reporters on Tuesday.
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On January 16, ET reported that the Centre was likely to allot nearly Rs 10,000 crore for setting up supercomputing and quantum computing hubs in collaboration with the private industry.
The proposed computing hubs will offer access to high-performance computing to startups, micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and other companies, either on lease or on a “compute-as-a-service” basis, a senior government official had then told ET.
The government is also likely to release the draft of the executive rules under the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act soon for consultation. These rules, the minister of state said, would contain detailed guidelines for the prevention of bias in AI-trained algorithms and
