Supercomputing in India

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India will produce supercomputers by 2017

NEW DELHI: India will get an indigenously -- built supercomputer next year as part of the government's Rs 4,500-crore programme aimed at taking India into an elite league of nations who have made advancements in the field.

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing that built India's first supercomputer, Param, is handling the project, said Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary in the Ministry of Science and Technology.

The government had in March last year approved the plan of the National Supercomputing Mission, under which 80 supercomputers will be built in the next seven years. "Some of them will be imported and the rest will be built be indigenously. The first one will come up by August 2017," he said.

"We are working on how to control heat. The cost of power to run these supercomputers alone will be around Rs 1,000 crore," Sharma said.

The new supercomputers will be kept in different institutes across the country. "A supercomputer can be used for various purposes like climate modeling, weather forecast, discoveries of drugs among others," Sharma said.

Currently, countries like the US Japan, China and the European Union account for a major share of the topsupercomputing machinesin the world.

 

[Indx TechStyle]

Moreover, indigenous supercomputers built before:
PARAM Series
Anupam Series
SAGA Series
And many more.

 

[Kshatriya87]

India to get indigenously-built supercomputer under a massive mission plan by 2017

Under the National Supercomputing Mission’s plan, which got an approval from the government in March last year, in next 7 years 80 supercomputers will be built.

India is all set to have an indigenously-built supercomputer by 2017. Government has launched a Rs 4,500-crore programme, which aims at helping India enter an elite league of nations who have made advancements in the field. The project is being handled by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, said Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary in the Ministry of Science and Technology. Param, India’s first supercomputer was also built by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing.

Under the National Supercomputing Mission’s plan, which got an approval from the government in March last year, in next 7 years 80 supercomputers will be built. “Some of them will be imported and the rest will be built be indigenously. The first one will come up by August 2017,” said Sharma.

“We are working on how to control heat. The cost of power to run these supercomputers alone will be around Rs 1,000 crore,” he added. The new supercomputers will be kept in different institutes across the country. “A supercomputer can be used for various purposes like climate modeling, weather forecast, discoveries of drugs among others,” Sharma said. US, Japan, China and the European Union currently account for a major share of the top supercomputing machines in the world.

http://www.newsnation.in/article/132391-india-to-build-80-new-supercomputers-in-next-7-years.html

 

[Kshatriya87]

I had no idea that it was going to be 80 supercomputers !!!

 

[Navnit Kundu]

I had no idea that it was going to be 80 supercomputers !!!

Even I realized it only after reading your comment.

@Indx TechStyle
I am waiting for Pakistan to raise concern about this development and claim that strategic balance in South Asia is being altered and Pakistan will have to take corrective measures by building more tactical nukes. That is the only thing they can do after every advancement India makes.

On top of it, the article mentions 'climate modeling', now jahil Pakistanis are going to claim that India is working on a climate weapon. :blah:

 

[Indx TechStyle]

going to claim that India is working on a climate weapon. :blah:

There is already a facility Gadanki Ionospheric Radar Interferometer (GIRI) termed as a weather weapon.

 

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First of India’s 70 new supercomputers to be ready by August 2017

The first of the 70 supercomputers to be built in India to aid research will be ready by August 2017. Photo: iStockphoto

New Delhi: The first of the 70 supercomputers to be built in India to aid research will be ready by August 2017, a government official said. The government is also finalising the sites to house these supercomputers.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs had approved the launch of the National Supercomputing Mission in March last year at an estimated cost ofRs.4,500 crore over a period of seven years. The mission aimed to enable India to leapfrog to the league of world-class computing power nations, is being implemented jointly by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY).

Eleven Indian machines are in the list of the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers as of November 2015. The first supercomputer is under development at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), which was responsible for developing India’s first supercomputer ‘Param’.

“There are two major challenges in supercomputer revolution if supercomputers are to replace the common desktop computers. One is heat and power management as these supercomputers guzzle a lot of energy. Another is that we need to generate human resources to operate these supercomputers in the future,” said Ashutosh Sharma, secretary in the ministry of science and technology.

The mission looks at installing a supercomputing grid of more than 70 high-performance computing facilities. These supercomputers will also be networked over the National Knowledge Network, a government program which connects academic institutions and R&D labs over a high-speed network.

“The focus this year is in manufacturing and hardware construction of this supercomputer. By the end of this mission, we will have the capability to make our own supercomputers and operate them,” said Sharma. “But right now we are in negotiations with global vendors to manufacture supercomputers here and participate in human resource training,” he added.

Nikita Mehta

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70 more Indigenous computers to be operational by 2017. That's correct news now.
@Kshatriya87

 

[Bahamut]

Any info on the research in India for Quantum computing ?
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[Indx TechStyle]

Any info on the research in India for Quantum computing ?
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Nice question.
I'm thinking of a discussion over this as well after collecting info.
For now, site:
http://www.dei.ac.in/dei/quantumNano/

For more,
Experimental
Dr. Rajamani Vijayaraghawan Lab
http://www.tifr.res.in/~quantro/research.htm
There are many more.
Others are HRI, RRI, IISc,
We mainly research on this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorana_fermion

 

[Navnit Kundu]

There is already a facility Gadanki Ionospheric Radar Interferometer (GIRI) termed as a weather weapon.

Iske toh naam mein hee interference hai. Pakistan will surely raise concern about strategic imbalance in 'South Asia'.

 

[Kshatriya87]

India To Buy $60 Million Supercomputer To Predict Monsoon

 

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India is itself building a supercomputer to forecast the monsoon
India's colonial-era monsoon forecasting to get high-tech makeover

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's forecasting of the monsoon - the crop-nourishing seasonal rains that are the lifeblood for farmers in the country of 1.3 billion people - is getting a high-tech makeover.

Jettisoning a statistical method introduced under British colonial rule in the 1920s, India's meteorology office is spending $60 million on a new supercomputer to improve the accuracy of one of the world's most vital weather forecasts in time for next year's rains.

The new system, based on a U.S. model tweaked for India, requires immense computing power to generate three-dimensional models to help predict how the monsoon is likely to develop.

Experts say better forecasting could help India raise its farm output by nearly 15 percent, by helping farmers tweak the best time to sow, irrigate or apply fertilizer to crops and if rains fail plan state-wide measures. This would be a major boon for a country already either the world's biggest or second-biggest producer and consumer of rice, wheat, sugar and cotton.

"If everything goes well, by 2017 we'll make this dynamical model operational by replacing the statistical model," said M. Rajeevan, the top scientist in the ministry of earth sciences, which oversees the weather office on a 30-acre campus in the heart of New Delhi.

The June-September rains are relied on to replenish reservoirs, recharge aquifers and for half of all farmland that does not have irrigation.

Many areas receive more than 70 percent of their annual rains during the monsoon and plentiful rains means more money in rural communities, sustaining some 600 million people and boosting demand for an array of goods and services.

MELTING SNOW

Rajeevan declined to name the companies the bureau was talking to obtain the new supercomputer, but said it would be 10 times faster than the existing one supplied by IBM (IBM.N).

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issues forecasts for the country as a whole and five regions, though does not give separate ones for the country's 29 states.

"We didn't adopt the dynamical model earlier because it was not able to forecast monsoons. Now, it can and with better results than the statistical model," said Rajeevan.

The existing model uses historical relationships between rainfall and six to eight predictors such as sea-surface temperatures and southeasterly winds over the Indian ocean.

Because of India's size, one national forecast is of little help to farmers spread across diverse climatic zones.

"I'll cherish the day they'll come up with a forecast for my state. It's going to mitigate our risks and help us plan our crop better," said Dharmendra Kumar, whose farm is in Uttar Pradesh, a state roughly the size of the United Kingdom and with a bigger population than Brazil.

The IMD, set up in 1875, produced its first monsoon forecast in 1886 after the famine of the 1870s.

Back then, it relied on melting snow in the Himalayas to predict rains. Early forecasters also observed plants and animals, consulted almanacs and invoked Lord Indra, the rain God of Hindus.

Now, about 5,000 IMD employees gather data, obtained from radar, observatories, ships, sensors and satellites, for the weather office, where staff peer at computer screens flickering with charts, graphs and multi-coloured maps of India.

In 2015, the IMD accurately forecast a second straight drought year, in contrast to predictions of bountiful rains by Skymet, India's only private forecaster.

But the weather office failed to foresee the worst drought in nearly four decades in 2009 and, as this year's monsoon starts, farmers hope its forecast of above-average rains will be right.

"In the last one decade we've gained a greater degree of precision in forecasting rains, but monsoon still remains a very complex weather system which only God has the ability to understand fully," Rajeevan said.

 

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Top 5 supercomputers from in world;

1. Tianhe -2 (33.86 Petaflops/second), PRC
2. Titan (17.59 Petaflops/second), USA
3. Sequoia (17.17 Petaflops/second), USA
4. K Computer (10.51 Petaflops/second), Japan
5. Mira (8.59 Petaflops/second), USA

 

[tsunami]

Top 5 supercomputers from in world;

1. Tianhe -2 (33.86 Petaflops/second), PRC
2. Titan (17.59 Petaflops/second), USA
3. Sequoia (17.17 Petaflops/second), USA
4. K Computer (10.51 Petaflops/second), Japan
5. Mira (8.59 Petaflops/second), USA

What about Indian one................??

 

[Indx TechStyle]

What about Indian one................??

Yet not in top 20.
We will be manufacturing 80 supercomputers in India in April, 2017 which will be a mix of computers manufactured by indigenous and foreign vendors. So, will get some rank up.
But for playing in the league big league, I think we'll take a decade.

 

[Ancient Indian]

Top 5 supercomputers from in world;

1. Tianhe -2 (33.86 Petaflops/second), PRC
2. Titan (17.59 Petaflops/second), USA
3. Sequoia (17.17 Petaflops/second), USA
4. K Computer (10.51 Petaflops/second), Japan
5. Mira (8.59 Petaflops/second), USA

Check this one,

The Sunway TaihuLight (Chinese: 神威·太湖之光) is a Chinese supercomputer that, as of June 2016, is ranked in the TOP500list as the fastest supercomputer in the world,[1][2] with a LINPACK benchmark rating of 93 petaflops.[3] This is nearly three times as fast as the previous holder of the record, the Tianhe-2, which ran at 34 petaflops.

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A supercomputer to take complex computation to villages
The aim is to make it accessible even to bright students in remote locations.

Indian scientists are trying to develop a massive grid computer that will be accessible to any student in a remote town or village to solve complex science problems.

While India’s current grid-connected system GARUDA (Global Access to Resource Using Distributed Architecture), which is spread across 17 cities, has been a great help, the proposed National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) will catapult India into the league of nations with the most powerful supercomputers.

NSM, or GARUDA++ as it is being called by grid computing experts, will help in the complex analysis needed in fields as diverse as astrophysics, weather forecasting and drug discovery for neglected diseases.

“GARUDA++ can be used to give a push to Startup India, by developing analytics tools for them,” said Subrata Chattopadhyay, chief investigator, GARUDA. He was speaking at a workshop for institute partners under GARUDA and National Knowledge Network at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bengaluru on Thursday. Another goal is connecting the system to cloud computing, to provide an easy end-user interface.

While GARUDA has 6,000 interconnected CPUs and offers a computing ability of half a petaflop, the proposed system will be far more powerful. Under NSM, Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, plans to deploy 70 interconnected supercomputers across India.

Who says we can't break into the league of the leaders?

“NSM will have 73 supercomputers with a computational ability ranging in three levels — two or three of 10 to 20 petaflop range, 20 computers of half petaflop, and the lower range (50) of up to 100 teraflops,” said Sarat Chandra Babu, executive director, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), which was funded by the Department of Information Technology to deploy GARUDA. “By August next year, we expect to procure two middle-range supercomputers,” Dr. Babu told The Hindu.

Sridharan R., Joint Director, C-DAC, explained how supercomputing could help improve weather modelling. “As of now, weather mapping is done in a 5 km to 10 km range. Farmers would benefit greatly if they could obtain hyperlocalised information within a 1 km to 1 km mapping,” he said.

Venugopal K.R., professor of computer science, University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, believes that in the future, supercomputing will help students in remote locations.

“Most advanced research today requires massive resources. Say a chemistry student would need to simulate several thousand permutations and combinations of molecules before narrowing down on likely combinations for trials. The study of genomics would require billions of calculations,” he said.

Work on NSM started in January. Once completed, it will augment GARUDA.

Grid computing interconnects computer resources to solve complex engineering and science problems.

Powerful stats

1 teraflop: 1 trillion floating point operations per second

1 petaflop: 1 thousand trillion floating point operations per second

1 petaflop: 1,000 teraflops

 

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IIT Guwahati gets state-of-the-art supercomputer
Officials said several institutions in the country will get supercomputers in the near future to boost innovation and research.
BY: PTI | GUWAHATI |Updated: September 20, 2016 10:42 AM

A state-of-the-art supercomputer, ‘Param-Ishan’, was today unveiled in IIT Guwahati by HRD minister Prakash Javadekar, as the government looks to give a push to research and innovation in Indian institutions.

“It is a one of the glad moments to have the fastest and most powerful computer in northeastern, eastern and southern regions,” Javadekar said after the launch.

Calling IITs “modern temples for development”, Javadekar said a nations’ potential for growth is evaluated on the quality of its research and development.

Several technology areas will be positively affected through the introduction of the new supercomputer, he said.

Officials said several institutions in the country will get supercomputers in the near future to boost innovation and research.

“While some institutions already have supercomputers, the number of such institutes will rise and go up to 60 as the government is focussing on providing advanced infrastructure,” a senior official said.

In his speech, Javadekar said the government has invited new development and research initiatives and 2,000 proposals have been received so far, according to a statement released today. Out of these projects, four hundred were shortlisted and funds released for the various projects across the county, he said.

IIT Guwahati Director Prof Gautam Biswas said ‘Param-Ishan’ has power of 250 Teraflops and capacity of 300 terabytes.

It's good for a world class institution but given that it's fastest in 3 regions and one of the fastest in India, we will have to do a lot more if compare with PRC, US or Japan.

He said the supercomputer would not only augment research initiatives in the institute, but also help create an ecosystem for attracting the right talent to the field of research.

The supercomuter can be used in application areas like Computational Chemistry, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Computational Electromagnetic, Civil Engineering Structures, Nana-block Self Assemble, Optimisation etc.

It can also be used for weather and climate modeling as well as seismic data processing.

 

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ISRO to develop new supercomputer

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Blink your eye and, gone. That’s how quickly supercomputers become obsolete. In 2011, when the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) unveiled SAGA-220, its supercomputer in Thiruvananthapuram, it was the fastest in the country and 86th in the world. A mere five years down the line, it does not even find a mention in the latest TOP500 list.

But now, ISRO is aiming to bounce back with a brand new two petaflops machine which is expected to cost between Rs 100 crore and Rs 150 crore. “SAGA-220 is more or less obsolete. We are even finding it hard to get components for replacing parts. As we want the new 2 petaflops machine to be a ‘Make in India’ initiative, we have approached the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) for assistance,” said Dr K Sivan, director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thumba. Petaflops denote dizzyingly high computational speeds. One petaflop is equal to a quadrillion (which is 1 followed by 15 zeros) floating point operations a second.

“Like SAGA-220, the new supercomputer also will be housed at the VSSC, but its services will be available to all ISRO centres, Sivan said. Unveiled by the then ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan in 2011 for computational fluid dynamics applications, SAGA-220 was capable of a theoretical peak of 220 TeraFLOPS, or 220 trillion floating point operations per second.

If completed in a decent time frame, it can break into top 50 supercomputers at least.
https://www.top500.org/list/2016/06/

 

[Chinmoy]

ISRO to develop new supercomputer


If completed in a decent time frame, it can break into top 50 supercomputers at least.
https://www.top500.org/list/2016/06/

Now that's a good news. With C-DAC pitching in, it would be a great help to indigenous design concept and implementation. But do you have any track of the proposed semi conductor facility in India? Without a in house semi conductor and processor, we would always be lagging behind in the race. Although premier eductional institutes like IITs are getting their super computers along with a few NITs, but I think it should become a norm to have one in every technical institute in the range of TF. Budget would be a huge constraint, but I think with in house semi conductor tech, we would be able to make these more affordable.

BTW one glimpse of the general architecture of a Supercomputer for nerds....

Source : wiki