India’s latest and quickest supercomputer, PARAM-Siddhi AI, has been ranked 63rd within the Top500 record of strongest supercomputers on this planet. The supercomputer was established earlier this yr, beneath the Nationwide Supercomputer Mission (NSM) and goes to be put in within the Centre for Improvement of Superior Computing’s (C-DAC) unit. The Top500 undertaking tracks essentially the most highly effective supercomputers on this planet, and is revealed twice a yr.
PARAM-Siddhi is the second Indian supercomputer to be entered within the prime 100 on the Top500 record. Pratyush, a supercomputer used for climate forecasting on the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, ranked 78th on the November version of the record. It was ranked 66th within the June rankings introduced by the undertaking.
One other Indian supercomputer, Mihir (146th on the record), golf equipment with Pratyush to generate sufficient computing energy to match PARAM-Siddhi. Whereas the brand new supercomputer is considerably sooner than Pratyush, delivering 6.5 petaflops of energy, it’s far behind the leaders within the record.
Japanese supercomputer Fugaku (442 petaflops) and IBM’s Summit (148.8 petaflops) are the 2 strongest supercomputers on this planet, in keeping with the Top500 record. Chinese language Sunway TaihuLight is quantity 4 on the record (93 petaflops), developed by the Nationwide Analysis Middle of Parallel Pc Engineering & Know-how (NRCPC) in China.
The pc is predicted for use as a platform for academia, scientific analysis, startups and extra. Ajay Sawhney, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Data Know-how (MeitY) mentioned the pc has been designed for catastrophe administration, computational fluid dynamics and extra. “As we transfer ahead with the Nationwide Program on AI, this may show to be exceptionally helpful to analysis groups throughout the nation, in addition to to firms and startups,” he added.
“Our mission is to make India a worldwide vacation spot for AI-based merchandise and superior analysis in AI, with emphasis on state-of-the-art options in numerous domains, together with robotics,” mentioned Hemant Darbari, Director Basic, C-DAC. Darbari additionally mentioned that C-DAC can also be creating the peripheral frameworks required for top efficiency computing (HPC)-AI, which can be utilized by startups and researchers within the nation.
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The supercomputer was commissioned by the C-DAC earlier and has been developed in affiliation with chipmaker Nvidia and French IT consulting agency Atos.
