Bengaluru to get 35-petaflop supercomputer from C-DAC

Bengaluru to get 35-petaflop supercomputer from C-DAC

News –

• Bengaluru will soon get a 35-petaflop supercomputer, a high-capacity computing machine, currently being built by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC).
• A petaflop is a unit of measurement for computer processing speed, representing one quadrillion floating-point operations per second.

National Supercomputing Mission(NSM)

• Launched in – 2015
• Objective – It is a mission of the Government of India to boost the supercomputing capabilities of India.

Key features

• This mission consists of designing and manufacturing 73 supercomputers in India.
• These clusters of supercomputers will be connected to various academic and research institutions across India.
• This grid will be connected to the National Knowledge Network (NKN).

Implementing Agencies

1. Department of Science and Technology
2. Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY)
3. Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
4. Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.

New-age applications of supercomputers

• Weather forecasting
• Natural disaster predictions
• Drug discovery
• Space applications
• Aerodynamic research
• 3D nuclear test simulations.

Facts about Supercomputers

• India’ s First Supercomputer – PARAM 8000, developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune, and launched in 1991.
• “Rudra” is India’s first indigenously designed HPC server on par with global HPC-class servers.
• India’s fastest supercomputer is- AIRAWAT, which is the largest and fastest AI supercomputing system in the country.
• It has a speed of 13,170 teraflops and was ranked 75th globally on the Top 500 list in 2023.