NVIDIA, VJTI Mumbai partner to accelerate R&D at the institute’s Business Incubator

The Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI), Mumbai and NVIDIA announced the availability of next-generation computing capability at the Technology Business Incubator (TBI), housed at VJTI. TBI now has an NVIDIA DGX System built on the revolutionary NVIDIA Volta GPU platform and will allow for researchers as well as startups to build solutions leveraging the computational capability afforded by the NVIDIA DGX System.

The facility is powered by a NVIDIA GPU-accelerated DGX-1 AI Supercomputer powered by eight NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU accelerators, NVIDIA NVLink and new Tensor Core architecture and a complete Deep Learning Stack with optimized versions of today’s most popular frameworks. What this allows for is faster Deep Learning Training, and improved productivity, compared to CPU-only systems.

The Technology Business Incubator was established recently under a grant from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India under NIDHI initiative. The aim of the incubator is foster a culture of innovation for the startup ecosystem in the areas of clean-tech, energy, IoT, cloud computing and cybersecurity. The TBI and computing platform powered by NVIDIA helps the startup ecosystem in Mumbai which is the third largest in the country. The city was also first in the number of startup registrations in India in 2018, per a report from KPMG.

Dr Faruk Kazi, project coordinator of VJTI-TBI, said: “This facility shall help start-ups working in the area of AI and Deep Learning to validate their algorithms and come-up with innovate solutions. VJTI-TBI is a domain specific incubator wherein startups are provided with access to cutting-edge thrust-area laboratory facilities for product development and rapid prototyping. NVIDIA DGX 1 system with more than 1 Petaflop computing power and over 100 Terabyte storage will help startups and researchers to think unthinkable. Together with NVIDIA, we wish to create enabling infrastructure and emerge as research hub for AI & deep learning.”

Vishal Dhupar, managing director, NVIDIA South Asia said, “NVIDIA has a proud tradition of working with the leading research institutions in the country to enhance their computational capability regardless of the field of application or area of research toward which the facilities are being dedicated. We’re pleased to be associated with VJTI’s Technology Business Incubator as they go about improving access to computational facilities for researchers and startups alike,”

The Technology Business Incubator at VJTI will be extending the use of the NVIDIA DGX System to potential startups and other government and civilian research organizations.