Kaynes Technology: The government-owned Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) will get 3,000 RUDRA high-performance computing (HPC) servers, designed in-house by Kaynes Technology, an integrated electronics firm situated in Mysuru.
ET has learned that CDAC, a research and development organization under the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY), has already given the contract to the listed company Kaynes.
E. Magesh, the director general of CDAC, said, “these servers are planned to be used for building PARAM RUDRA supercomputing systems under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM)”. According to him, CDAC is depending on Kaynes Technology to supply the local servers.
According to Indian Defense News, under the NSM, RUDRA HPC servers will be developed to satisfy the computing demands of industries such as edge computing, banking, finance, advanced manufacturing, healthcare, and hyper-scale data centres.
In the past, servers were imported into India. Between 250,000 and 400,000 servers, valued at $1.5 billion, are brought into the nation each year.
The contract, according to Kaynes Technology managing director Ramesh Kannan, is for the production of RUDRA 1 HPC servers. RUDRA 2 is also being worked on, as the company has received an order from CDAC for a prototype.
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CDAC built RUDRA using Intel Xeon processors and conducted the R&D for it.
After obtaining the design file, “Kaynes obtained the license to manufacture this technology in India within three and a half months,” he stated. “All of the parts, the printed circuit board, the design studies, and the verification could be completed internally. We were able to finish ten fully functional prototypes of this server during this time.
After that, CDAC released a tender for the production of three thousand servers. These are entirely designed and produced in India. They are native to the area.
Following technical factory audits, quality parameter checks, and capacity expertise assessments, Kaynes was given the contract by the CDAC executive team.
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“We opened for business in October of last year, operating a 17-acre electronics manufacturing facility in Chamarajanagar, close to Mysuru. This involves the installation of five surface-mount technology (SMT) lines, one of which is capable of producing one lakh servers annually, according to Kannan. “We will begin manufacturing 3,000 servers in the following twenty weeks. Integrated circuits need to originate externally. We will then deliver the RUDRA 2 prototype after this.
With nine facilities and sixteen SMT lines spread over India, Kaynes employs over 2,600 people. The government’s production-linked incentive program 2.0 for IT hardware, which covers the production of servers, laptops, tablets, all-in-one PCs, and ultra-small form factor devices, is another benefit that the company enjoys.
A server will typically contain at least four processors, with each one costing up to $3,000.
