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Two supercomputers from India in the TOP500 list, one in top 100

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    10Pointer
  • Categories
    Science & Technology
  • Published
    19th Nov, 2020

Context

  • Two supercomputers from India, PARAM Siddhi-AI and Mihir, have made it to the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.

Key highlights

  • The two systems have been ranked 63rd and 146th, respectively.
  • Japan’s Fugaku, which has additional hardware of 442 Petaflops and was ranked first.
  • In the 56th list, Japan, the USA, Germany, Italy, and France dominated the first 100 systems.

What are Supercomputers?

  • A supercomputeris a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instructions per second (MIPS).

Some of the supercomputers of India

PARAM Siddhi-AI

  • PARAM Siddhi-AI has aRpeak capacity of 5.267 Petaflops and Rmax capacity of 4.6 Petaflops.
  • It was led and built on NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD architecture.
  • The system is jointly built by the Department of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Electronics and IT.

Mihir

  • ‘Mihir’ is a 2.8 Petaflop supercomputer.
  • It is one of the powerful systems owned by the Ministry of Earth Sciences and has helped improve India’s forecasting skills.

Pratyush

  • It is the first multi-PetaFlopssupercomputer ever built in India with 4 Petaflopcapacity.

National Supercomputing Mission

  • The mission was launched in 2015.
  • It was launched by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
  • It aims to install 73 indigenous supercomputers throughout the country by 2022.
  • This is a seven-year program. 

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