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India has made significant strides in technological self-reliance by installing 37 supercomputers with 40 Petaflops computing power. These systems are supporting critical research across multiple domains including drug discovery, climate modeling, and astronomy. The project demonstrates India's growing capabilities in indigenous technology development. The National Supercomputing Mission represents a strategic approach to building technological independence and global competitiveness.

Key Points: India Installs 37 Supercomputers in National Computing Mission

  • 37 supercomputers installed under National Supercomputing Mission
  • Systems running at over 85% capacity across research institutions
  • Supporting 10,000 researchers including 1,700 PhD scholars
  • Indigenously developed PARAM 'Rudra' servers boost local tech ecosystem
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37 supercomputers with 40 Petaflops computing power installed under NSM: Minister

India achieves major tech milestone with 40 Petaflops computing power, supporting 10,000 researchers across academic and research institutions

"India has now the capability of designing, developing and manufacturing supercomputing technologies indigenously - Jitin Prasada, Minister of State for Electronics and IT"

New Delhi, Aug 21

At least 37 supercomputers with a total computing power of 40 Petaflops have been installed (till August 12) under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), as the government aims to achieve self-reliance and global leadership in supercomputing by giving access of state-of-the-art supercomputing facilities to researchers, addressing grand challenges, optimising investments, and enhancing global competitiveness in key areas of supercomputing technologies.

These systems are set up in leading institutions like IISc, IITs, C-DAC, R&D Labs and also in several academic institutions and research organisation in the tier 2 and 3 cities across the country.

The systems are being used efficiently, with most running at over 85 per cent capacity and many exceeding 95 per cent. These supercomputers have supported over 10,000 researchers, including more than 1,700 Ph.D scholars from over 200 academic and research institutions, said Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Jitin Prasada, in Lok Sabha.

"They have played a key role in advancing research in areas such as drug discovery, disaster management, energy security, climate modelling, astronomy, computational chemistry, fluid dynamics, and materials research. More than one (01) crore compute jobs have been completed, and as a result over 1,500 research papers have been published in reputed journals. Startups and MSMEs are also using these systems to boost their HPC-based projects," the minister informed.

Under the NSM, an ecosystem has been established with the focused goal of achieving self-reliance in supercomputing, encompassing the design, development, and manufacturing of supercomputing server boards, as well as the creation of a complete system software stack and associated applications.

"India has now the capability of designing, developing and manufacturing supercomputing technologies indigenously. This approach is in line with the Prime Minister's vision of Atmanirbhar Bharat," said the minister.

PARAM 'Rudra' supercomputers are built using indigenously designed and manufactured High-Performance Computing servers, known as "Rudra", along with an indigenously developed system software stack.

"Rudra" Server is the first of its kind in India which is at par with globally available other HPC class Servers. These servers are being manufactured in India by local manufacturers, boosting local electronics industries.

In parallel, under the NSM, the "Trinetra" high-speed inter communication network between computer nodes has been developed and tested with speeds of 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps to enhance data transfer and communication between computing nodes, strengthening India's supercomputing capabilities.

- IANS

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Priya S
Amazing to see tier 2 and 3 cities getting access to such facilities! This will really help bridge the urban-rural research gap. Hope they expand this further to even more institutions.
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Aditya G
Indigenous development of servers and software stack is the real achievement here. Rudra servers being at par with global standards - that's what Atmanirbhar Bharat should look like! 👏
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Sarah B
As a researcher who has used these facilities, I can confirm they've dramatically accelerated our work. The 40 Gbps/100 Gbps Trinetra network is particularly impressive for large data transfers.
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Vikram M
While this is good progress, we still have a long way to go compared to China's supercomputing capabilities. Hope the government continues to invest aggressively in this sector.
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Kavya N
Supporting 10,000 researchers and 1700 PhD scholars is no small feat! The 1500+ research papers published show tangible outcomes. This is how we build a knowledge economy 💪
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Michael C
The startup and MSME usage is particularly encouraging. High-performance computing access can really level the playing field for smaller Indian tech companies competing globally.

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