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Well-equipped laboratories are
essential for universities offering professional courses and
frontier areas of research, particularly in the fields of nano-technology,
bio-engineering etc. Shanmugha Arts Science Technology and Research
Academy (SASTRA) at Thanjavur has established a `Sun Lab' and a new
embedded systems lab facility at a cost of Rs.1.35 crores. The
facilities were inaugurated by Anand Patwardhan, Executive Director,
TIFAC, Government of India, on Tuesday.
"The TIFAC-CORE in Advanced computing
and Information Processing at SASTRA is a success story of how
academic institutions, government, and industry can collaborate to
create a centre of excellence," said Mr. Patwardhan on the occasion.
With high-end servers and required
storage, along with streaming audio and video, the new Sun Lab
facility once fully established will be a virtual classroom for
students. The facility has the network storage capacity for the
archives of the digital classes planned. The industry-standard
software for the embedded systems design, VXWorks from the
Winddriver is also a major addition, said R. Sethuraman,
Vice-Chancellor of the SASTRA. Four of the SASTRA MTECH students
will participate in research projects in Centre for High Performance
embedded systems at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore,
from August for two semesters under the MOU umbrella of NTU and
SASTRA TIFAC-CORE. NTU will financially support the students.
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The Hindu dated on 21.07.2005
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