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CIT-IBM RPP

             Coimbatore Institute of Technology Organized a two-day Research Promotion Programme, a unique program first of its kind, sponsored by  IBM India Private Limited on High Performance Computing and Cloud Computing during 8^th -9^th January 2010.  Around 91 faculty members and research scholars from about 25 engineering colleges all over Tamilnadu participated in the programme. PG students from CIT also attended the programme to explore the opportunities in the high end technology area. 

             The Programme was focused on the advanced topics in the High Performance Computing domain, to enable the participants to get an insight into the current technological advancements in the said area. Eminent speakers from IIT Chennai and IBM India delivered   lectures on High Performance Computing, Parallel Programming, Cloud Computing Architecture, Application and Challenges.

             The chief guest Dr.D.Janakiram, Professor, IIT Chennai inaugurated the programme His Technical talk on “Introduction to cloud Computing” with a current research project as an example was an excellent opening session. The technical sessions with demos and case studies by Mr.Nysal Jan. Mr.Ganesan Narayanasamy, Dr.Chiranjib sur, Ms.Priyadarshini Sampath  Mr.Srinivas Chidurala all from IBM India helped the researchers to further explore the avenues for research in the niche areas.

            The programme was concluded   with distribution of participation Certificates by Dr.V. Selladurai, Principal CIT. The participants gave excellent feed back requesting the organizers to organize more such programmes in the coming days for the benefit of young researchers.