Infosys, Nvidia to jointly set up technology centre

IT firm Infosys Technologies today announced its partnership with Nvidia, a world leader in graphics and digital media processors, to set up the Infosys-Nvidia Technology campus.

As the first step, the partnership will see setting up of the Infosys-Nvidia Technology campus at the Infosys campus in Bangalore, Subu Goparaju, vice president and head of software engineering and technology labs, told media.

The partnership would develop Nvidia Cuda (Compute Unified Device Architecture) Technology-enabled software solutions.

Cuda technology, developed by Santa Clara-headquartered Nividia is a revolutionary architecture in the field of high performance computing. Cuda technology is designed to allow application developers to tap the unexploited power potential of Graphic Processing Unit in order to accelerate a certain application, consequently boosting performance level.

Through this partnership, Infosys will focus on accelerating its application development process, by simplifying complex computational projects for its global and Indian customers across industry verticals, including healthcare and life sciences, e-governance, finance and medical sciences.