IN THE PRESSURE FOR HIGH POWER COMPUTING, THESE NINE INDIAN INSTITUTES WILL RECEIVE SUPERCOMPUTERS

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Nearly a month after putting in one of the country's most powerful supercomputers, India will build nine more to cement its position as a leader in high-powered computing.

Several hundred universities and thousands of active researchers and academicians would have access to High-Performance Computing (HPC) resources, according to the Ministry of Science and Technology.

The new facilities will be built as part of the National Supercomputing Mission, which was established to improve the country's research resources and capabilities by establishing a supercomputing grid.

"With the National Super Computing Mission (NSM), India is rapidly evolving as a leader in high-performance computing, with supercomputing infrastructure already installed in 10 premier institutions such as IITs, IISc, IISER Pune, JNCASR Bengaluru, various C-DACs, NABI Mohali, and benefiting researchers from a variety of other institutions," the ministry said in a statement.

WHICH INSTITUTIONS ARE EXPECTED TO RECEIVE SUPERCOMPUTERS?

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, IIT Madras, IIT Patna, IIT Delhi, Inter-University Accelerator Centre (IUAC) Delhi, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) Pune, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) Pune, and National Informatics Centre (NIC) Delhi will all receive these nine new supercomputers.

The design and development of indigenous server nodes, interconnect switches, storage, and system software stack for the next generation of High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems has begun with 85 percent local manufacture, according to the ministry. One such development is India's first indigenous server platform, dubbed 'Rudra,' which can meet the HPC needs of all governments and PSUs, as well as the country's strategic needs.

For effective inter-node communication between computing nodes, the country's next-generation indigenous HPC interconnect, dubbed "Trinetra," was planned and constructed. This will increase energy efficiency and assist large-scale systems, according to the ministry.

WHICH INSTITUTION HAS EXISTING SUPERCOMPUTERS?

With the commissioning of the Param Pravega, the Indian Institute of Science (IISC) in Bengaluru became the latest institute to receive a supercomputer. Param Pravega, India's most powerful supercomputer, with a supercomputing capacity of 3.3 petaflops (1 petaflop equals a quadrillion or 1015 operations per second).

Apart from that, India has Param Shivay, the world's first indigenously built supercomputer, which was installed at IIT (BHU), and PARAM Shakti, PARAM Brahma, PARAM Yukti, PARAM Sanganak at IIT-Kharagpur, IISER, Pune, JNCASR, Bengaluru, and IIT Kanpur, IIT Hyderabad, NABI Mohali, CDAC Bengaluru, respectively.

"The National Supercomputing Grid (NSM) is establishing a network of supercomputing facilities in academic and research institutions across the country. "Part of it is being imported from overseas, and part of it is being built locally, with the latter increasing over time," the ministry added.

The government hopes that these new facilities will not only help meet the increased computational demands of academia, researchers, MSMEs, and startups in fields such as oil exploration, flood prediction, genomics, and drug discovery, but will also strengthen the country's supercomputer development capability.

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