National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune for installing a state of the art super computer in the process of becoming part of the National Super Computing Mission of the Government of India.<br />'' <br />''The MoU was signed today in the presence of Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Sanjay Dhotre,  Secretary of Department of Science and Technology Dr Ashutosh Sharma and  Secretary of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology Ajay Prakash Sawhney. Dr. Mini Shaji Thomas, Director, NIT, Trichy and Dr. Hemant Darbari, Director General, C – DAC signed the MoU.<br />'' <br />''A total of 10 Centrally Funded Institutions have been inducted into NSM including IISc, Bangalore and seven IITs in addition to NIT, Trichy. The objective of the NSM is to empower technology institutions with high-performance computing capabilities that can be used for solving socially relevant, computationally intensive problems.<br />'' <br />''<span style="color: #222222;">NIT Director Dr Mini Shaji Thomas said that the super Computing facility worth 17 crore rupees will be made available to neighbouring educational institutions, as mandated and in line with NEP-2020.</span><br />