AMD India partners with IISc Bengaluru to advance AI & HPC research

California-based semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) India and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, have set up a joint initiative to advance High Performance Computing (HPC) and AI research in the country, a statement from the company said.

AMD will work closely with a team of professors and researchers from IISc to study heterogeneous computing including the areas of core design, AI training, inference, and compilation. The research intellectual property (IP) will be jointly owned by the parties. AMD will also sponsor students pursuing research in areas like low-power designs, Machine Learning (ML)-based design optimisations, pruning and quantisation for ML models.

In addition, AMD has donated a cluster of HPC nodes with EPYC Processors, MI Instinct GPUs and Alveo V70 accelerators to IISc. “HPC & AI are fundamentally redefining the world of technology and AMD is at the centre with our portfolio of computing products. The research partnership with IISc, in these areas, will help our engineers find new ways to optimise our products to tackle some of the world’s toughest challenges,” Jaya Jagadish, country head and senior vice president, AMD India said.


Professor Ramaswamy Govindarajan from the computer science and automation department of IISc said this collaboration will “help find innovative solutions in the areas of optimisation, compilation, and partitioning for heterogeneous computing platforms”.

The collaboration between IISc and AMD India goes back to 2000 when the company started its R&D operations in India.

AMD has also set up a research division within the India Development Centre (IDC) under the leadership of senior fellow Prakash Raghavendra. He will work closely with the global head of AMD Research, Ivo Bolsens to drive research projects in India.

Bolsens said, “We have some of the sharpest engineering talent in India and this opportunity will allow them to drive research in evolving and futuristic technologies relevant to AMD.”