Mergers News: 14/7/09

NEST TIES UP WITH NVIDIA
Thiruvananthapuram
The Economic Times

Network Systems and Technologies (NeST) based at the Technopark here has tied up with visual computing initiative major Nvidia Corporation, whereby the former will provide professional services and multi-core services to their joint customers worldwide. Officials said NeST would also establish a centre of excellence with products from Nvidia to develop solutions for their customers.

NeST managing director N Jehangir said the partnership would help his company provide high performance computing solutions to customers. NeST Software president S Sasi Kumar said the computing team at NeST had used Nvidia tools to extract exceptional performance to meet demanding requirements of applications like medical imaging, industrial inspection, modeling and simulations.

Nvidia sales director for Middle East, Africa and India, Daniel Saison said the CUDA centre of excellence was the latest sign that GPU computing had established itself as a key technology for the future of high performance computing.

NeST, which offers customized software and hardware development services for engineering applications and product development services for customers worldwide, has operations in North America, Middle East, Europe, Asia and Australia.