India to Build 60 Supercomputers

The Department of Science and Technology has announced the plans to build 60 supercomputers over the next three years. The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) will be responsible for the implementation of the project and six machines are expected to be installed by the end of the year. Supercomputers A supercomputer is one that ..

Topics: Centre for Development of Advanced Computing • Computing • Concurrent computing • Digital technology • FLOPS • Information technology in India • K computer • Parallel computing • PARAM • Supercomputers • Supercomputing • Supercomputing in India

PM Modi launches supercomputer ‘Param of 833 teraflop capacity built at IIT-BHU

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has recently launched the supercomputer ‘Param of 833 teraflop capacity built at the IIT-BHU. It is built at the cost of Rs 32.5 crore under the National Super Computing Mission. About 40% of the total computer power will be used by the students of Navodaya Vidyalaya. The institute claims that relevant ..

Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs

Topics: Computing • Cray • Digital technology • India Meteorological Department • Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology • Information technology in India • PARAM • Pratyush and Mihir • Supercomputers • Supercomputing • Supercomputing in India

Mihir: High performance computing facility inaugurated at Noida

Ministry of Earth Science (MoES) has inaugurated high performance computer system (HPC) or supercomputer Mihir (meaning sun) at National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF), Noida. The HCP will provide facility for improving weather/climate forecasts. It is country’s largest HPC facility in terms of peak capacity and performance. It also propelled India’s ranking to ..

Month: Current Affairs - January, 2018

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Topics: Mihir HPC • Ministry of Earth Science • National • National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting • Science and Technology • Supercomputers

Sunway-TaihuLight: World’s powerful Supercomputer

The 2016 edition of Top500 list of supercomputers has revealed that China’s Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer is the world’s most powerful supercomputer system Sunway-TaihuLight can perform calculations with processing speed of 124.5 petaflops per second (Pflops). It is world’s first system to surpass 100 petaflops. This supercomputer has displaced Tianhe-2, an Intel-based Chinese supercomputer that has ..

Month: Current Affairs - June, 2016

Topics: China • Science and Technology • Sunway TaihuLight • Supercomputers • US

IBM Sequoia: Fastest Computer in the World

The US super computer Sequoia has been crowned as the fastest computer in the world. Placed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California Can make 16.32 quadrillion calculations/second (16.32 petaflops/s) A petascale Blue Gene/Q supercomputer Sequoia helps the US keep its nuclear stockpile safe, secure and effective without the need for underground testing. Constructed by ..

Month: Current Affairs - June, 2012

Topics: Computing • Digital technology • FLOPS • IBM Blue Gene • Parallel computing • Petascale computing • Sequoia • Supercomputers • Supercomputing • Supercomputing in China • Tianhe-1 • TOP500