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This is not just another supercomputer developed by the Big Blue or an established player, but by a startup, T-Hub, which functions as a catalyst for over 700 budding entrepreneurs, start-ups and in creating an environment for innovation.
Why would T-Hub be developing a supercomputer when there are many in other parts of the world and in India?
Parallel computing“We are developing this innovatively by harnessing the power of parallel computing. This is not just another computer with huge processing power; its objective is to try out a number of innovative processing capabilities such as the smart city projects, agriculture and healthcare applications,” said Jay Krishnan, CEO of T-Hub, located in the IIIT-Hyderabad campus.
Sharing the progress the T-Hub made since its launch a year go, Krishnan, along with its COO, Srinivas Kollipara, said, “This ₹24-crore supercomputer project will be part of the Sandbox initiative and focus on heavy data intensive and graphic applications and real-time analytics for smart cities. It could be assessment of traffic impact at a given time in Delhi or Chennai, or impact of various other factors at one go.”
Both the supercomputer and the Sandbox initiative will be launched by March 2017. Entrepreneurs get to work on collaborative projects and contribute to solving issues, either on their own or be part of larger projects of big corporations.
In developing the Hub and helping entrepreneurs through the start up stage, a number of companies have secured funding and the nature and scope of work is innovative and at times disruptive. “We are now looking at developing the Phase II of the T-Hub, with an outlay of about ₹180 crore, which will be the biggest anywhere in the world, spread over about 3.5 lakh sq.ft,”Srinivas Kollipara said. The Hub has become an innovative model for entrepreneurship where more than 18 incubators, other accelerators and public and private sector undertaking are engaged in encouraging the culture of innovation.
“This has attracted representatives from over 14 states to possibly develop similar facility,” Krishnan said.
“The model is such that we do not need to have assets, as we can help connect to others not just in India but globally through T-Bridge, where collaborative research can be taken up,” he said.
It has received applications from more than 2000 startups and the list is growing. Through a tie-up with Uber in India and TiE in Silicon Valley, new projects would be taken up.
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