TNPSC Thervupettagam

Pratyush – India’s fastest supercomputer

January 9 , 2018 2510 days 4046 0
  • India unveiled Pratyush, meaning the sun, the High Performance Computing (HPC) facility has been established at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune
  • It has the array of computers which can deliver a peak power of 6.8 petaflops.
  • Petaflops is a Unit of computers Computing Speed.
  • Pratyush is the fourth fastest supercomputer in the world dedicated for weather and climate research, and follows machines in Japan, USA and the United Kingdom.
  • With the new system, it would be possible to map regions in India at a resolution of 3 km and the globe at 12 km.
  • It will also move an Indian supercomputer from the 300s to the 30s in the Top 500 list, a respected international tracker of the world’s fastest supercomputers.
  • The machines will be installed at two government institutes:
  1. 0 petaflops HPC facility at IITM, Pune
  2. 8 petaflops facility at the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecast, Noida.

Er R S Banger September 16, 2019

Great Article

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