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.

 

Mergers News: 13/7/09

LPU, CADENCE SET UP REGION’S FIRST VLSI LAB
Jalandhar, July 13, 2009
Hindustan Times (Chandigarh edition)

Lovely Professional University (LPU) and US software major Cadence have collaborated to set up the region’s first very large scale integration (VLSI) laboratory here to provide industry-grade electronics design and automation (EDA) tools in chip designing for budding engineers

LPU Chancellor Ashok Mittal said that the lab, set up at a cost of Rs 16 lakh, would help create integrated circuits by combining thousands of transistor-based circuits into a single chip

“The university has decided to introduce VLSI as subject in the second and third year of electronics and communication engineering, computer science and engineering and information technology disciplines from the coming academic session

We aim to train nearly 1,000 students and faculty members per year at the newly set-up lab,” Mittal said

He said the lab would pro- vide low-cost solutions for technical problems of the region’s industry

“The academia-industry link- age will help budding engineers here concentrate on industry specific problems for low cost solutions, giving much-needed impetus to research and development,” he said, adding no institution barring a few IITs and a handful of institutes of higher learning across India possessed such a lab

The US software major would provide regular technical upgrades to assist students undertake their projects

“This will ensure career success in the sunrise field of graphic design and also help bridge the gap between academic curriculum and industry readiness,” Mittal added