The government initiative aims to make 10,000 GPUs available to support the IndiaAI Mission and benefit startups, researchers, students, and academics.
AS Rajgopal, CEO of NxtGen Data Center and Cloud Technologies, one of the bidders, told ET: 2.”
Nvidia, AMD, and Intel did not respond to ET’s requests for comment.
NxtGen will offer 1,088 GPUs from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel, with 55% of the total bid comprised of Nvidia GPUs, 43% AMD GPUs, and 2% Intel GPUs.
“INDIAai’s bid promised 512 units of AMD MI325X and Nvidia H200SXM and said they would allocate more to achieve 70% utilization,” Rajgopal said.
Find a story that interests you
“We are also deploying a minimum of 256 MI325Xs and 256 H200s every quarter until they are replaced by new versions, and we have support from both Nvidia and AMD to ensure this minimum number is available. ” he said. Various engagements with Intel have been completed and are expected to conclude in the second week of January. Older GPUs (H100SXM, MI300x) are already being leveraged at various stages. H100NVL and L40S are being deployed as private AI clusters for large customers,” he added.
The Nvidia H100 and L40S are ones the company already owns and services its existing customer base.
“Going forward, we plan to invest only in the Nvidia H200 and AMD MI325X, deploying an average of 512 GPUs per quarter. We plan to switch to the AMD MI350X as soon as it becomes available, as well as the NVidia Blackwell GB200,” says Rajgopal. says Mr.
He believes the majority of workloads will be inference, but said these larger GPUs will be dynamically virtualized depending on the compute needs of the use case.
“We want to offer our customers all the options available and help them make the best choice for their use case,” he added.
Anuj Bairathi, chief executive officer of Cyfuture, another bidder, told ET, “According to the RFE, there is a requirement for diversity. The more diverse you are, the higher you qualify to bid. Most likely, we get 70% of our GPUs from Nvidia and 30% from AMD.
He said the cloud company has ordered 1,000 GPUs from the two chip giants, adding that Cyfuture has ordered H100, H200, L40S, A100, MI300 and MI325 GPUs. “Among these, H100 and L40S have the highest share at 15%, and A100 has around 100 GPUs. We have already submitted the order form to MeitY,” Bairati said.
The last bid submission date was November 28th, and cloud service providers, managed service providers, and data center service providers participated. Bidders include leading companies such as Jio Platforms, Tata Communications, CtrlS Datacenters, E2E Networks, Sify Digital Services and Yotta Data Services.
Other bidders are CloudThat Technologies, CMS Computers, Hostin Services, I2k2 Networks, Ishan Infotech, Locuz Enterprise Solutions, Orient Technologies, Path Infotech, Shezar Web Technologies, Unicloud Labs, and Vensysco Technologies.
A technical evaluation committee is currently evaluating these bids based on eligibility and technical criteria. Qualified bidders will be invited to present their proposed solutions during the technical presentation stage.
Commercial bids will be opened only to technically qualified bidders. Empanelment is valid for 36 months, with the option to extend for a further 12 months.
