ahmedabad the dominant brains of the mobile world those chips in your smart devices with advanced risc machine arm architecture which turn your mobiles into formidable multitasking devices can unleash high performance computing too at the dhirubhai ambani institute of information communication and technology daiict a project called treepie headed by prof amit bhatt has with support from qualcomm a leading manufacturer of mobile phone chipsets based in san diego us created one such high performance computer with mobile chipsets the project has now been selected as one of the top 10 finalists under the design in india challenge organised in collaboration with nasscom we won a seed fund of 10000 from qualcomm and now my team gets to use their facilities in bangalore to design a faster and efficient supercomputing cluster by november which will be the finals says bhatt the competition has been aligned with the make in india initiative together bhatts team assembled four lowpower qualcomm boards each embedded with snapdragon 600 chipset containing 17 ghz quad core 4 core krait processor conforming to the arm architecture and was able to conduct high performance computing