Supercomputers of India

The idea of indigenously built supercomputers gained momentum when the US under George HW Bush administration stopped the export of aCray supercomputer,Cray X-MPbecause of continuing technology bans. They feared that India might use it for military purposes rather than for weather forecasting.

After this, the Indian Government under then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi decided to set upCentre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in March 1988(Pune) to develop technologically advanced supercomputers.

C-DAC was the scientific society of  the Department of Information Technology (DIT) under the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.

This led to the development of the first indigenously built Super Computer in India,PARAM 8000 in 1990PARAM 8000 at5 Gflopswas considered as the second-fastest supercomputer in the world at that time. The latest machine in the PARAM series are thePARAM SHIVAYand thePARAM Brahma.

National Supercomputer Mission (NSM)

The government launched Rs. 4,500-croreNational Supercomputing Missionunder the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). It is a joint venture  implemented along with the Department of Science and Technology (DST)  under the guidance of C-DAC and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.

NSM’s first supercomputer –PARAM Shivay IIT-BHU, Varanasi, 837 TeraFlops.

Its aim was set to establish a network of supercomputers ranging from a few Tera Flops (TF) to Hundreds of Tera Flops (TF) and three systems with greater than or equal to 3 Peta Flops (PF) in academic and research institutions of National importance across the country by 2022.

SuperComputer | Year | Institute ---------------------------------------- SuperComputer: Param Shivay Year: 2019 Institute: IIT-BHU --- SuperComputer: Pratyush Year: 2017 Institute: IIT(Pune) --- SuperComputer: Param Kanchenjunga Year: 2016 Institute: CDAC AND NIT Sikkim --- SuperComputer: Param Ishan Year: 2016 Institute: CDAC AND IIT Guhawati --- SuperComputer: Aadithya Year: 2013 Institute: Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology --- SuperComputer: Param Yuva II Year: 2013 Institute: CDAC Pune --- SuperComputer: SAGA-220 Year: 2011 Institute: ISRO --- SuperComputer: Anupam Adhya Year: 2010 Institute: BARC ---

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Weather and climate modelingScientific R & DMissile DeploymentSpace SciencePharmaceutical ScienceBig Data Mining.Molecular DynamicsWhat the Future holds for Super Computing?

There is a race to break the Exaflop barrier all over the world. Many of theExaflopssupercomputers are getting ready to be unveiled in 2021.Google's Supercomputer Sycamoreis said to have achieved quantum supremacy. Future fields of application include: