9/6/2018
PUNE (MUMBAI): Tata
Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading IT services, consulting and business
solutions organization, announced that in collaboration with Intel Corporation,
it is setting up a Center for Advanced Computing to develop advanced solutions
in the areas of High Performance Computing (HPC), High Performance Data
Analytics (HPDA), and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The new Center at TCS’ Super Computing facility in Pune, India
will be enabled by integrating the latest Intel Xeon Scalable processors with
Intel Omni-Path Fabric (Intel OP Fabric), Intel Optane™ technology, BigDL and
additional Intel technologies in the future.
The Center will focus on enabling TCS specialists to leverage
the most advanced HPC, HPDA, and AI technologies for enterprises and academia
to enable breakthroughs and create industry specific solutions across life
sciences, genomics, manufacturing, technology, retail, utilities, banking, and
the insurance sectors, as well as testing and research in areas that include
weather forecasting and
disaster monitoring.
“HPC combined with digital transformation technologies
including Cloud, cognitive computing and advanced analytics are a critical
lever for enterprises across the globe to transform their businesses,” said V.
Rajanna, Vice President and Global Head, Technology Business Unit, TCS. “HPC
capabilities are critical for enterprises to become “Business 4.0” prepared,
and TCS and Intel are on the forefront helping customers reimagine their
products and services through high performing research that will transform the
product experience for the end user.”
“Convergence efforts are being focused on combining HPC and
‘big data’ analytics workloads together using a unified HPC system. This
engagement enables the capability to bring advanced analytical tools to
scientists, which can enable extreme data processing capabilities, some of
which are complementary to analyzing large HPC simulations,” said Lisa Davis,
Vice President in the Intel Datacenter Group and GM of the Digital
Transformation & Scale Solutions Group.
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