NVIDIA AI LAB- TECHNOLOGY PROPOSAL

for setting up an AI Lab with GPU’s for enabling a participating academic & research institute in India with the
technology infrastructure required for course/project work, job-oriented, hands-on training and research facilities in
the area of AI with focus on deep learning, machine learning, data science and analytics
Feb’ 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Technology Proposal for setting up an Lab with the technology infrastructure required for course/project work,
job-oriented, hands-on training and research facilities in the area of AI

AI Deep Learning is paradigm shifting Technology driving the fourth industrial revolution. It will transform
everything

India has a strategic opportunity to be Global Talent provider to the world for AI

NVIDIA is the Technology leader in AI and is proposing an academic partnership with the participating
University/Institute to help it position itself as a leader in the country. Objective is to enable the Institute
to offer the very best education, training and research facility in Artificial Intelligence powered by GPU for
AI with focus on deep learning, machine learning, data science and analytics

Technology proposal to enable a participating Academic Institute to set up an AI Lab, start electives, short
terms courses and take up research efforts in AI; deep learning, machine learning, data science and
analytics. Achieve leadership in driving AI Talent enablement and research

The proposal details the gives/gets from Academic Partnership with NVIDIA including co investment for
NVIDIA GPU based systems, AI/DL Courseware & Faculty training

Various options for the base compute infrastructure are proposed to enable choice for the participating
Academic Institute
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NVIDIA — “THE AI COMPUTING COMPANY”

GPU Computing Visual Computing Artificial Intelligence

http://www.nvidia.in/page/home.html
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AI Lab
Partnering Academic Institute’s roles and responsibilities

Partnering Academic Institute will be the ‘Hosting Institute’ for the ‘AI-GPU Lab’ & will :

✓ Invest in the required compute infrastructure, set it up and manage it

✓ Provide the required space and facility infrastructure for the compute facility, training classes and on
premise research efforts

✓ Enhance the compute and lab facilities on a need basis

✓ Assign lead faculty, academic researchers, and compute & lab infrastructure administrators

✓ Build an academic calendar with courses, electives and job oriented training to ensure that students and
researchers have the required basic foundations to excel at AI with GPU deep learning

✓ Actively explore and establish, partnerships with organisations and research institutions that have a high
propensity for AI and deep learning applicability, focus on specific domain and areas and a demand for
talent

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VALUE PROPOSITION FOR INSTITUTION
Leadership

First amongst peers to start AI/Deep Learning Elective courses

Student Industry readiness Opportunity for Industry

& employability. collaboration
NVIDIA DLI Teaching Kits, Deep Prepare students for challenges Industry-Academy collaboration for
Learning ready training system, and skills required that an AI driven AI/Deep Learning and Research
Trained faculty & Academic partnership economy and computing model will projects
demand
will help break barriers to course
introduction.
Opportunity for short term Faculty opportunity to be
training programs DL Ambassadors

Opportunity to offer high in demand Certified Faculty can enroll for NVIDIA
short term training programs to industry DL Ambassador program. Benefits –
professionals and outside students Industry exposure, consultancy &
training opportunities

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Academic Partnership with NVIDA
Value proposition and benefits for the participating academic institute

NVIDIA will extend co investment for AI/DL CoE establishment against NVIDIA DGX Family of
Supercomputing systems and NVIDIA GPU Systems

NVIDIA will provide Teaching Kits from NVIDIA for Deep Learning and Accelerated Computing. This
will include Lecture Slides, Videos, Source Code Solutions, e Books, Hands on Lab and coding
project covering 40+ hours material to help craft course elective/syllabus

NVIDIA will extend fully optimized AI Software - Deep Learning GPU Training System (DIGITS)
including, NVIDIA driver, NVIDIA® CUDA® Toolkit, NVIDIA® DIGITS™ SW, NVIDIA® cuDNN™, Caffe,
Theano, Torch, BIDMach, NVIDIA RAPIDS for end-to-end data science and analytics pipelines et.al

NVIDIA will provide ‘Train the Trainer’ training for Institute faculty on AI/Deep Learning-
a minimum of 2 full day workshops on Deep Learning and/or Accelerated Computing
NVIDIA Branding for the proposed for the proposed AI Lab

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 DEEP LEARNING SOFTWARE

developer.nvidia.com/deep-learning
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NVIDIA - ENABLING AI ADOPTION & SKILL BUILD

Deep Learning Institute (DLI) Teaching Kits

• Lecture slides • Source code solutions

• Lecture videos • e-books
• Hands-on labs & coding projects • GPU cloud resources