Intel selected PSG as centre of excellence
Intel India has selected ten tier 2 institutes to be cultivated as centres of excellence to prepare university professors and students for a new paradigm of software development. This initiative, which is a part of Intel's World Ahead Program, aims to give students a hands-on experience and training in adapting to real-world applications.Speaking at the event, Manav Subodh, higher education manager, Intel Technology India, said, "The objective of this initiative is to educate today's science and engineering students and developers to architect, develop and debug the next generation of software applications for modern, multi-core platforms."Intel India has announced the following ten institutes: College of Engineering, Guindy; Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur; International Institute of Information Technology, Bengaluru; International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad; International Institute of Information Technology, Pune; Kalasalingham University, Krishnan Koil; PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore; Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy (SASTRA), Thanjavur; Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai; and Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum.
The ten selected institutes would enjoy the following benefits: the institutes will be mentored by a senior Intel technologist for the next two years; equipment grant worth $150 K will be given to institutes for lab use; training sessions and workshops to introduce computer science students and teachers to programmes which work on threaded, multi-core and multi-processor systems to maximise knowledge and performance; course materials, 10-20 core2duo PCs, laptops powered by dual-core processors for instructor use in the classroom, as well as licences for Intel software development products along with access to forums and technical support; and travel for faculties who get a paper published in conferences of international repute.
After working with tier 1 institutes like Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur and Indian Institute of Science (IIS), Bangalore who developed new courses for students of computer science and engineering, after being initiated into the multi-core programme, Intel reached out to 470 faculty members from 206 institutes across India at 4 national level conferences held in Bengaluru, Jaipur, Mumbai and Chennai.
With mentorship from Intel technologists, the ten selected institutes aim to change their existing curriculum on computer architecture and start the new course by August 2007. The on-going multi-core university initiative by Intel India aims to change the curriculum of close to 150 engineering institutes by end of 2008.
