Supercomputing in India
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India
's supercomputer
program was started in late 1980s because Cray
supercomputers were denied for import due to an arms embargo imposed on India, as it was a dual use technology and could be used for developing nuclear weapons.
PARAM
8000 is considered India's first supercomputer
. It was built by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
with Russia
n collaboration.
built by ISRO, is capable of performing at 220000 GFLops
(220 TFlops
). It uses about 400 NVIDIA Tesla
2070 GPUs and 400 Intel Quad Core
Xeon
CPUs. It is yet to be ranked on Top500 list.
is a supercomputer built by the Computational Research Laboratories
with technical assistance and hardware provided by Hewlett-Packard
. It is capable of performing at 132800 GFLops
(132 TFlops
) and is currently ranked 58th on the Top500 list.
series of supercomputer developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
. It is capable of performing at 38100 GFlops
(38.1 TFlops
) and is ranked 298th on the Top500 list.
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
's supercomputer
Supercomputer
A supercomputer is a computer at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation.Supercomputers are used for highly calculation-intensive tasks such as problems including quantum physics, weather forecasting, climate research, molecular modeling A supercomputer is a...
program was started in late 1980s because Cray
Cray
Cray Inc. is an American supercomputer manufacturer based in Seattle, Washington. The company's predecessor, Cray Research, Inc. , was founded in 1972 by computer designer Seymour Cray. Seymour Cray went on to form the spin-off Cray Computer Corporation , in 1989, which went bankrupt in 1995,...
supercomputers were denied for import due to an arms embargo imposed on India, as it was a dual use technology and could be used for developing nuclear weapons.
PARAM
PARAM
PARAM is a series of supercomputers designed and assembled by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing in Pune, India. The latest machine in the series is the PARAM Yuva.Param means supreme in Sanskrit.-History:...
8000 is considered India's first supercomputer
Supercomputer
A supercomputer is a computer at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation.Supercomputers are used for highly calculation-intensive tasks such as problems including quantum physics, weather forecasting, climate research, molecular modeling A supercomputer is a...
. It was built by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing is a research and development organization under the Department of Information Technology, India.-History:...
with Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n collaboration.
Current Top500 Supercomputers
According to Top 500 as of 22 May 2011, India has 3 systems on the list.| Rank | System | Rmax (TFlops) | Site |
|---|---|---|---|
| 58 | EKA EKA (supercomputer) EKA is a supercomputer built by the Computational Research Laboratories with technical assistance and hardware provided by Hewlett-Packard.Eka means the number One in Sanskrit.-Design:... |
132.8 | Computational Research Laboratories Computational Research Laboratories A member of the prestigious TATA Group, Computational Research Laboratories is a wholly owned subsidiary of TATA Sons Limited. CRL is headquartered in Pune, India and has a branch office in US... , Tata Sons Tata Sons Tata Sons is a promoter of the key companies of the Tata Group and holds the bulk of shareholding in these companies. It was established as a trading enterprise by Group founder Jamsetji Tata in 1868... |
| 221 | IBM Power 575 | 55.11 | Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology The Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology or IITM is a scientific institution based in India for expanding research in meteorology of the tropics in general with special reference to monsoon meteorology of India. The current director of IITM is Prof. B.N... |
| 299 | PARAM Yuva | 38 | Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) Centre for Development of Advanced Computing Centre for Development of Advanced Computing is a research and development organization under the Department of Information Technology, India.-History:... |
SAGA-220
Recently unveiled supercomputer SAGA-220SAGA-220
SAGA-220 is a supercomputer built by the Indian Space Research Organisation . As of May 2011, it is the fastest supercomputer in the nation with a maximum theoretical speed of 220 TFlops....
built by ISRO, is capable of performing at 220000 GFLops
FLOPS
In computing, FLOPS is a measure of a computer's performance, especially in fields of scientific calculations that make heavy use of floating-point calculations, similar to the older, simpler, instructions per second...
(220 TFlops
FLOPS
In computing, FLOPS is a measure of a computer's performance, especially in fields of scientific calculations that make heavy use of floating-point calculations, similar to the older, simpler, instructions per second...
). It uses about 400 NVIDIA Tesla
Nvidia Tesla
The Tesla graphics processing unit is nVidia's third brand of GPUs. It is based on high-end GPUs from the G80 , as well as the Quadro lineup. Tesla is nVidia's first dedicated General Purpose GPU...
2070 GPUs and 400 Intel Quad Core
Quad core
Quad core may refer to:* A processor with four cores. See Multi-core processor* Intel Core 2 Quad* AMD Phenom...
Xeon
Xeon
The Xeon is a brand of multiprocessing- or multi-socket-capable x86 microprocessors from Intel Corporation targeted at the non-consumer server, workstation and embedded system markets.-Overview:...
CPUs. It is yet to be ranked on Top500 list.
EKA
EKAEKA (supercomputer)
EKA is a supercomputer built by the Computational Research Laboratories with technical assistance and hardware provided by Hewlett-Packard.Eka means the number One in Sanskrit.-Design:...
is a supercomputer built by the Computational Research Laboratories
Computational Research Laboratories
A member of the prestigious TATA Group, Computational Research Laboratories is a wholly owned subsidiary of TATA Sons Limited. CRL is headquartered in Pune, India and has a branch office in US...
with technical assistance and hardware provided by Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...
. It is capable of performing at 132800 GFLops
FLOPS
In computing, FLOPS is a measure of a computer's performance, especially in fields of scientific calculations that make heavy use of floating-point calculations, similar to the older, simpler, instructions per second...
(132 TFlops
FLOPS
In computing, FLOPS is a measure of a computer's performance, especially in fields of scientific calculations that make heavy use of floating-point calculations, similar to the older, simpler, instructions per second...
) and is currently ranked 58th on the Top500 list.
PARAM Yuva
PARAM Yuva belongs to the PARAMPARAM
PARAM is a series of supercomputers designed and assembled by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing in Pune, India. The latest machine in the series is the PARAM Yuva.Param means supreme in Sanskrit.-History:...
series of supercomputer developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing is a research and development organization under the Department of Information Technology, India.-History:...
. It is capable of performing at 38100 GFlops
FLOPS
In computing, FLOPS is a measure of a computer's performance, especially in fields of scientific calculations that make heavy use of floating-point calculations, similar to the older, simpler, instructions per second...
(38.1 TFlops
FLOPS
In computing, FLOPS is a measure of a computer's performance, especially in fields of scientific calculations that make heavy use of floating-point calculations, similar to the older, simpler, instructions per second...
) and is ranked 298th on the Top500 list.
See also
- History of supercomputingHistory of supercomputingThe history of supercomputing goes back to the 1960s when a series of computers at Control Data Corporation were designed by Seymour Cray to use innovative designs and parallelism to achieve superior computational peak performance...
- Supercomputing in ChinaSupercomputing in ChinaThe People's Republic of China operates a number of supercomputer centers which hold world records in speed.The origins of these centers go back to 1989, when the State Planning Commission, the State Science and Technology Commission and the World Bank jointly launched a project to develop...
- Supercomputing in EuropeSupercomputing in EuropeSeveral centers for supercomputing exist across Europe, and distributed access to them is coordinated by European initiatives to facilitate high-performance computing...
- Supercomputing in JapanSupercomputing in JapanJapan operates a number of centers for supercomputing which hold world records in speed, with the K computer becoming the world's fastest in June 2011....
- Wipro SupernovaWipro SupernovaWipro Supernova is the name of a series of high-performance computing solutions offered by Wipro Infotech.-Features:The product is offered under 3 segments: entry level, mid-segment and high-end, which have varying performance and storage capacities. The entry level system costs INR 2,500,000; and...
- PARAMPARAMPARAM is a series of supercomputers designed and assembled by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing in Pune, India. The latest machine in the series is the PARAM Yuva.Param means supreme in Sanskrit.-History:...