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February 25, 2025

Marvell and IIT Hyderabad Partner to Support India’s Next Generation of Technology Innovators

By Kirt Zimmer, Head of Social Media Marketing

Marvell Data Acceleration and Offload Research Facility

Lighting the way! Marvell Senior VP Cary Ussery, CSE HOD at IIT Prof. Anthony, Marvell AVP Prasun Kapur, IITH Faculty Lead Dr. Praveen Tammana, and Marvell Director Abed Kamaluddin inaugurate a new chapter in the Marvell-IITH collaboration.

Did you know that India is estimated to have about 20% of the world’s chip design workforce? This design expertise continues to expand with strategic investments in workforce education and development.

To that end, Marvell and the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT Hyderabad) have launched the Marvell Data Acceleration and Offload Research Facility, focused on advancing network, storage, and security technologies to raise the performance of accelerated infrastructure.

An inaugural reception was held with more than 150 students, staff, and faculty members attending. The event unveiled the research facility and the OCTEON server cluster in the data center. 

The Marvell research facility, the first of its kind globally, provides students, researchers, and industry professionals with access to cutting-edge Marvell data processor units (DPUs), switches, compute express link (CXL) processors, network interface controllers (NICs) and other technologies for accelerating how data is secured, moved, managed, and processed across AI clusters, clouds and networks. Industry research estimates that up to one-third of the time spent in AI/ML processing can be consumed by waiting for network access. A key element of the facility is access to Marvell comprehensive software solution frameworks optimized for developing solutions that take advantage of packet processing, cryptography, and AI/ML accelerators integrated in Marvell silicon.  

“The partnership between Marvell and IIT Hyderabad demonstrates the power of academia-industry collaboration,” said Cary Ussery, senior vice president,  wireless marketing at Marvell, who inaugurated the facility with representatives from IIT Hyderabad and other members of the Marvell technical and leadership team. “By providing access to cutting-edge technologies, this initiative accelerates advancements in AI, networking, and storage, empowering the next generation of tech leaders to drive breakthroughs in data infrastructure.”  

“This research facility will enable our students and researchers to work with world-class Marvell technologies,” said Dr. B. S. Murthy, Director of IIT Hyderabad. “It also establishes a platform for interdisciplinary research in emerging fields like AI/ML, accelerated compute, advanced encryption algorithms and network acceleration, paving the way for the next generation of technological innovation." 

“As cloud and AI infrastructure grow in complexity and size, so does the need for greater innovation around the technologies that manage the flow of data between servers, processors and other devices. Technologies such as DPUs, NICs and interconnects will play an outsized role in the development of AI,” said Prasun Kapoor, associate vice president, Custom Compute and Storage at Marvell. “We look forward to our deeper collaboration with IIT Hyderabad and seeing the results from this initiative.” 

The Marvell facility follows the success of the MLNetSec Workshop co-hosted by Marvell and IIT Hyderabad at the 26th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN) earlier this year. The workshop addressed key challenges in AI, networking, and cryptography, underscoring the importance of accelerated compute solutions in academic and industrial research. 

Marvell and IIT Hyderabad are collaborating on joint courses, hands-on training, and research initiatives leveraging the facility’s advanced setup. As part of their ongoing commitment, the research facility will host specialized workshops, conferences, and training sessions, fostering innovation and empowering the next generation of tech leaders to develop solutions for the future of data infrastructure. 

Marvell Data Acceleration and Offload Research Facility

Bridging academia and industry— The Marvell team and IITH research group come together at the 30-cluster research facility to advance education in accelerated computing and drive data infrastructure innovation.

Marvell Data Acceleration and Offload Research Facility

Dr. Praveen Tammana and Abed Kamaluddin— brainstorming on their ongoing hands-on course, designed to leverage the Marvell Data Acceleration and Offload Facility at IITH—an initiative they helped shape.

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