NVIDIA India's HPC Peer Communities

[palash25]

I got this email from NVIDIA India a few days ago. It goes like this:

NVIDIA India is launching focused digital communities for HPC practitioners, in areas such as molecular dynamics, CFD, deep learning, etc. The objective is to network, share, learn and discuss issues and challenges facing the Indian HPC segment.
Please note these communities will not be used for NVIDIA marketing or promotion and intends to be technically focused. Please also mention when registering what you think the right digital medium should be (ex: WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Facebook groups, etc).
If interested in receiving an invitation, please email your name, title, organization, business email and mobile number to rbiddappa@nvidia.com

I remember reading Anirudh Bose's blog post about the HPC cluster at our college

I don't know why I'm raising an issue about this but it might help ML/DL folks get access to high performance machinery or help out people interested in HPC

Should we as a college apply to be a part of this community? I need everyone's opinion as I don't really know much about this subject or this program and it would also be nice if someone could do some research on this program to know whether this would be a good step or not.

@p-society/2019-batch @p-society/2020-batch

[saiamrit]

Hey this is a cool initiative.Lets think of applying for it and take advantage of perks from NVIDIA. @palash25 can you share the link to the details of program so that we can have a look at the aim of the program ?

[palash25]

@saiamrit I am sorry but I don't have a link only the mail
I tried looking it up but couldn't find anything on their site

[shivank01]

@palash25 @saiamrit My professor at IIT Bhu applied to this scheme last year and got Nvidia Titan Xp.

[ankitjha97]

@p-society/2019-batch @p-society/2020-batch , we should apply for this.

[shivank01]

He told me about that few days back. Actually every year professors from different colleges apply to this. Some selected institutes based on the projects gets support from Nvidia

[saiamrit]

okay cool @ankitjha97 @hdidwania @shivank01 @AbhiRepository lets have a look into it.I guess Ajaya Sir might be having some idea about it because I remember once he had mentioned about NVIDIA offering him some hardware.

[arijeetsat]

@ankitjha97, any reply regarding the Intel application??

Yes, Ajaya Sir can help , but the important thing is we have show good projects that are being carried out in our college.

[hdidwania]

This is different than the scheme where NVIDIA provides free GPUs to professors/researchers (https://developer.nvidia.com/academic_gpu_seeding).
About the mail, the objective seems really unclear. Why does it seem they are looking to form a discussion forum/platform, which will most probably help NVIDIA know about the issues and challenges it's target community faces. I don't see enough of how can joining this group help us, as from what I can understand from the mail.

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[ankitjha97]

@arijeetsat , no email yet.

[palash25]

If there is no progress on this and if it is not a viable option for us then please someone close this.

[arijeetsat]

It is viable option and still a issue we are keeping an eye on, lets not close it.

[palash25]

Fine then I have assigned you to it. So that you can keep an eye on it and update it when the time comes you can close this 😄

[sudoankit]

Hi, just chiming in, the PI needs to have a PhD degree to apply for this. We had thought to get a Nvidia P5000 for Visioneering through this but Ajaya Sir still hasn't got his PhD yet.