The National Data Center (NDC) has launched GPU Cloud and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) facilities to strengthen Bangladesh’s Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) and provide advanced computing resources for universities, researchers, and students.

Inaugurated Wednesday at the Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) auditorium in Agargaon by Faiz Ahmed Taiyeb, special assistant to the chief adviser on Posts, Telecommunications, and ICT, the services aim to improve national cloud capacity and support high-performance computing.

Under the BDSAT project, long-unused GPUs have been activated, and a Nutanix-based cloud infrastructure with a CNCF-certified Kubernetes PaaS platform is now live. The platform offers developer consoles, CI/CD pipelines, GitOps integration, container registries with vulnerability scanning, DevSecOps, storage services, logging, monitoring, service mesh, and serverless computing.

Taiyeb said the upgrades address previous capacity and monitoring gaps, enabling BCC to better support digital governance. He added that the new infrastructure will help agencies comply with the Personal Data Protection Ordinance 2025, National Data Management Ordinance 2025, and Cyber Safety Ordinance 2025.

To boost AI and research capabilities, the Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority has integrated over 20 NVIDIA Volta tensor-core GPUs into a shared cloud platform, the first public-sector facility of its kind. Each GPU is roughly equivalent to 45 CPUs, offering up to 2,240 teraFLOPS of deep learning capacity. Researchers, students, and gaming companies can request GPU access via [email protected].

The initiative is part of the “Digital Government and Economy Strengthening Project,” implemented by the ICT Division with World Bank support. Officials from government agencies, private institutions, and the World Bank attended the event.