Super Computer
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What is Super Computer?
- Computer with Gigaflop capabilities
- Currently American “Summit” is the fastest Computer. But China has most number of Supercomputers in Top 500
- Uses : Where
large processing power is required. Eg
- Weather forecasting
- Code breaking
- Genetic analysis
- Scientific research . Eg : at CERN
- Data Mining & Big Data Analysis
National Supercomputing Mission
- launched in 2015
- Envisages empowering academic and R&D institutions by installing a supercomputing grid comprising of more than 70 high-performance computing (HPC) facilities.
- PARAM Shivay => first super computer built under this project designed & launched at IIT-BHU
- Under the mission, India has signed an agreement with French company Atos to designing and installing supercomputer named Bullsequana.
Supercomputers of India
- Pratyush
- Mihir
- Sahastra T
- TIFR Color Boson
- Param
Pratyush and Mihir
- Ministry
of
Earth Sciences (MoES) has setup high performance computing (HPC) system consisting of two
supercomputers Mihir and Pratyush (which can be connected with each other
to solve high level computations)
- Pratyush at Indian Institute of Tropical Meterology, Pune having capacity of 4 petaflops
- Mihir at National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, Noida having capacity of 2.8 petaflops
=> giving a total capacity of 6.8 petaflops.
- It is India’s first multi-petaflop supercomputer and is the fourth fastest super-computer in the world which is dedicated to weather and climate research after Japan, U.S.A. and United Kingdom.
- It will also take India up from the present 365th position to top 30 in the infrastructural ranking of Top 500 HPC facilities in the world.