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Government targets indigenous supercomputers
July 24 , 2017
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- The Central Government has planned to build supercomputers with indigenous technology, as a part of ‘Make in India’ initiative. The Rs 4,500-crore project was approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs in last year. The government has plans to make these high-precision computing machines available for scientific researches across the country. It has been planned to produce 50 supercomputers in three phases.
- In the first phase, three supercomputers will be imported. System assemblies for the remaining three will be manufactured abroad, but assembled in India. The six supercomputers will be placed at four IITs -- Banaras Hindu University, Kanpur, Kharagpur and Hyderabad -- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, and Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. Government has goal to setup the computers by end of this year.
- In the second phase, major parts will be manufactured in India. In third phase, almost entire system will be built in India.
- Currently, countries such as the US, Japan, China and the European Union (EU) make up a major share of the top supercomputing machines in the world.
- India started its own supercomputing mission in 1988 under which the first series of Param supercomputers were manufactured. The mission lasted 10 years and since 2000, there has been no major push for the project.
- There are nearly 25 supercomputers in India in different institutes. These are used for varied purposes, including to deduce complex phenomena like weather, climate change, nuclear reactions.
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