Mysuru’s Kaynes to make 3,000 RUDRA servers for govt’s CDAC
Kaynes Technology will manufacture 3,000 indigenously designed RUDRA high-performance computing (HPC) servers for government-owned Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC).
ET has learnt that CDAC, a research and development organisation under the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY), has already awarded the contract to Kaynes, a listed company.
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RUDRA HPC servers under the NSM will be made to meet the computational requirements of sectors like hyper-scale data centres, edge computing, banking, finance, healthcare and advanced manufacturing.
Traditionally, servers have been imported in India. Every year, 250,000 to 400,000 servers worth $1.5 billion are imported in the country.
Ramesh Kannan, managing director of Kaynes Technology, told ET that this contract is for manufacturing RUDRA 1 HPC servers, and that RUDRA 2 is also in the pipeline as the company has received the prototype order from CDAC.
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