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Pratyush – India’s fastest supercomputer
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- 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:
- 0 petaflops HPC facility at IITM, Pune
- 8 petaflops facility at the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecast, Noida.
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