Indian government to introduce three new supercomputers by December 2018

In early January, the Ministry of Earth Sciences deployed two Cray XC40 supercomputers for research activities, after which India’s two supercomputers fell below 100 for the first time on the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. We have made great progress in ranking. The first batch of supercomputers commissioned under the NSM (National Supercomputing Mission) project is expected to be completed by December, according to a new report.

The first phase of the Rs 4,500-crore project, approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs three years ago, involves assembling a supercomputer, and if ongoing efforts continue at the same pace, India will have three more. supercomputers will be in operation. And we will do it by the end of the year.

As part of the project, a 1.3 petaflops supercomputer will be deployed at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Kharagpur) and two supercomputers running at 650 teraflops will be installed at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER, Pune) by December. Entered the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University).

The Center for Advanced Computing Development (C-DAC), which is overseeing the project along with the Institute for Scientific Research (IISc), is evaluating bids from companies including Acer, Fujitsu, IBM, HCL, TCS, Dell and Netweb. It is reported that. And the contract will be signed soon. “This project is not only building a supercomputer, but also an application, and the work has not stopped yet. All other parts of the process are progressing smoothly,” said C-DAC Director General Hemant.・Mr. Darbari’s remarks were reported in the Economic Times .

The NSM project is being implemented by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) and aims to deploy around 73 supercomputers in academic and research institutes across the country in seven years. However, people familiar with the development said the lack of a single authority leading the project and insufficient government funding has caused some delays.