Schaeffler India, the motion technology company, has opened computational research infrastructure at the Foundation for Science Innovation and Development (FSID), Bengaluru. Part of Schaeffler India’s purposeful engagement with IISc, the supported facility strengthens research capabilities by enabling High-Performance Computing (HPC), large-scale simulations, data-intensive modelling and advanced analytics across materials, energy systems and sustainable mobility.

The initiative focuses on expanding FSID’s computational facilities through dedicated lab space, advanced in-rack cooling systems, power backup and high-performance hybrid computing workstations or clusters. These enhancements are expected to improve computational efficiency and support cutting-edge research.

The enhanced facility will directly benefit faculty members of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), FSID-incubated start-ups, external start-ups and MSMEs accessing advanced digital infrastructure, as well as industry partners engaged in R&D collaborations. Indirectly, the expanded infrastructure will support PhD scholars, postgraduate and undergraduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and the broader academic and industrial ecosystem.

Schaeffler India has also signed a Master Research Agreement (MRA) with IISc, laying the foundation for multiple future research projects and further strengthening its commitment to collaborative innovation and advanced research.

“At Schaeffler India, we are committed to building skills and manufacturing excellence rooted in India’s unique strengths, aligned with its needs, and geared towards creating lasting value. Such efforts depend on strong academia-industry collaboration, with institutions like Indian Institute of Science playing a critical role in equipping researchers with the right tools and expertise.

We’re proud to support its latest computational infrastructure through Schaeffler India’s CSR programme, HOPE. Beyond its immediate purpose, the facility will empower a wide spectrum of IISc research projects across diverse streams and teams, thereby amplifying the impact of collaborative research. Schaeffler India and IISc have a strong pipeline of joint projects, and our teams are fully aligned to move into execution. It reflects what’s possible when two organisations come together with a shared purpose to strengthen research across multiple disciplines at IISc,” said Harsha Kadam, MD & CEO, Schaeffler India.

“The initiative of Schaeffler India to establish a high-performance computational facility for developing intelligent and sustainable systems at FSID, IISc, is highly commendable. With the long-term aim of creating a computational facility with a peak performance of around 32 PFLOPs, comprising a mixture of CPUs and GPUs, the facility will be highly beneficial for the research groups at IISc, start-ups incubated at FSID, and industries that collaborate with FSID/IISc. We look forward to the increasing digitalisation, automation, and acceleration of research that this facility can create around the IISc ecosystem and the upcoming long-term collaborative activities with Schaeffler India,” said Sai Gautam Gopalakrishnan, Associate Professor of Materials Engineering, IISc.

Prof B Gurumoorthy, Director, Foundation for Science Innovation and Development, said, “Being the interface for collaborative research with industry and deep science innovation at Indian Institute of Science, we are pleased to have this new infrastructure, which will significantly strengthen our ability to support faculty and other researchers pursuing interdisciplinary research across materials, energy systems, and sustainable mobility. This collaboration with Schaeffler India marks an important step in enhancing FSID’s capabilities in high-end simulations, data-intensive research, and next-generation technology development. We see this as a strong example of how industry-academia partnerships can accelerate research and innovation with real-world relevance.”

By strengthening FSID’s computational infrastructure, Schaeffler India aims to catalyse agile and impactful research in engineering domains. The partnership will accelerate scientific deliverables, skill up the next-generation workforce and drive industry-relevant solutions.