Four new facilities at IIT-Hyderabad as part of phase-2 campus plan

HYDERABAD: The Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (

IIT-H

), on Wednesday launched four new facilities – High-Performance Computing (HPC) Centre, High-Resolution Electron Microscopy facility, Centre for Research and Innovation in Artificial Intelligence (CRIAI) and department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering building – as part of it’s phase-2 campus development.

The new facilities were virtually inaugurated by the Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan.

“IIT-H is the first institute in the country to offer full-fledged BTech in AI in line with the recommendation of NEP, 2020. I am confident with the recommendation of NEP 2020, such collaboration would become more common and further strengthen to achieve the goal of internalisation at home,” said Pradhan.

The HPC facility of 650 teraflops will be catering to the ever-increasing demands of computing for scientific and engineering research. It will enable solving of critical problems ranging from modelling of space/defence vehicles, cyber security, healthcare solutions, weather prediction, big data analytics, etc. The super-computing facility at IIT-H will be a collation of computing, network, graphics and visualisation

Similarly, the High-Resolution Electron Microscopy facility is India’s first cold-field emitter TEM operated at 200 kV. It is a multipurpose analytical microscope equipped with EDX and STEM detectors enabling atomic resolution imaging as well as compositional mapping.

The CRIAI is in addition to seating areas, classrooms and conference rooms for researchers. It houses a mini-data centre with high-end computational facilities to meet the ever-increasing demand of researchers.