Panora, AMD support UCSC research in computer architecture

Panora Corporation, a pioneering computer hardware provider in Sri Lanka has joined hands with AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) India to Support research conducted by the School of Computing of the University of Colombo in Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing.

The University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) will benefit from this program as AMD India together with Panora Corporations is donating a high capacity and state-of-the-art server to the university.

The Direct Connect Architecture of the platform has a HyperTransport unit and an inbuilt memory controller that is embedded into the processor making it one of the highest performing, high bandwidth and low latency software infrastructure available in the industry.

Accepting the server on behalf of the university, Head of the Department of Communication and Media Technologies, Dr. D. D. Karunaratne said, “The UCSC has an active research group in High Performance Computing which has been working with parallel and concurrent architectures, and the GRID framework.

Chairman of Panora Corporation S.H.M. Rishan said, “Our Company is committed to develop the IT literacy rate and penetration in Sri Lanka as we find the sector has high potential for growth.

We believe a project of this nature has great capacity to support the country’s IT infrastructure development as the UCSC is involved.

Therefore, we consider it a great honour to have got the opportunity to work with a global giant like AMD and a prominent university faculty like UCSC.”