Indian advancements in Supercomputing

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whats its rank in world supercomputer feild.

 

[agentperry]

its ranking is not that good and infact in past 5 years the supercomputers form india lost one of the fastest tags also.

the fastest is 10.21 petaflop while saga is 220 teraflop only

 

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World's 500 Fastest Supercomputers in 600×300 Pixels by country

 

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http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_india-gears-up-for-exa-scale-supercomputing_1633885

[h=1]India gears up for 'exa-scale' supercomputing[/h]Work on "exa-scale" supercomputing capability in India is well under way, under a Rs5,000-crore project, under the 12th 5-year plan, according to eminent scientist Vijay Bhatkar.
Talking to DNA from Bhubaneswar (Orissa) on Tuesday, Bhatkar admitted that despite being a superpower in information technology, India had been lagging in this field. The US, Japan, some European nations and even China had developed such computers to help them in advancing technology.
"Exa-scale computers can perform several million-trillion mathematical operations per second, which would be 1,000 times faster than current peta-scale supercomputers in India," Bhatkar explained.
Such high-power computing prowess is required for acurate prediction of the monsoon, natural disaster mitigation, for new discovery of drugs and many other such technologically competitive fields, he added.
"But now we are all ready to create exa-scale computers, which will help us to take huge leaps in technology and other fields," the scientist said.
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Indian Institute of Science and several national laboratories, universities and industries are collaborating to deliver exa-scale supercomputing infrastructure, he added.

 

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"Exa-scale computers can perform several million-trillion mathematical operations per second, which would be 1,000 times faster than current peta-scale supercomputers in India," Bhatkar explained.http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_india-gears-up-for-exa-scale-supercomputing_1633885

Who says we can not calculate missile trajectory or simulate nuke tests ?

 

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World's 500 Fastest Supercomputers in 600×300 Pixels by country

Give some explanation about the picture.......

 

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It is highest supercomputing capacity by speed of individual nations.

 

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Bangalore to get India's fastest supercomputer at 250 Teraflops

Bangalore: India's fastest supercomputer will be soon housed in Bangalore. Sources with the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation (CSIR C-MMACS) confirmed to Express on the eve of National Science Day that, the yet-to-be-named high performance computing (HPC) system will be used for genome informatics (gene sequencing), geo-science informatics (earth, ocean and atmosphere) and engineering sciences (aerodynamics of planes, development of smart materials and computer-aided drug design).

The supercomputer, when operational, is expected to deliver a sustained performance in excess of 250 teraflops (T-Flops). "The system would be capable of performing 250 x 1012 Floating Point Operations (FLOPS) per second – more than 10,000 times faster than a normal computer with dual core processor. The complex problems generally associated with advanced scientific research would all now get a huge boost with the arrival of the supercomputer," says Prof P Seshu, Head, C-MMACS.

As per the Top-500 list of supercomputers in the world published in November 2011, the biggest system in India is Eka presently with Tata Computational Research Laboratory, Pune. This system installed in 2007 is roughly around 133 T-Flops of sustained performance.
Supercomputers in scientific research can be utilised for modelling earthquakes, ocean currents, quantum chemistry and Astrophysics.

In the 12th Five-Year Plan (2012-'17), the central government has decided to pump in funds to tune of Rs 6,000 crore to propel India into the elite supercomputing club.

"CSIR-CMMACS presently has 24 T-Flops system, which is listed among the top in the country. Over the next few years, CSIR plans to upgrade their supercomputing capacity to 10 petaflops (10 x 1015 )," says R P Thangavelu, Coordinator, HPC Group, C-MMACS. A state-of-the-art data centre is being planned at the CMMACS facility in Belur, near Old Bangalore Airport.

A visualisation hyperwall is also being established to facilitate compute and data intensive scientific research. "Present high-fidelity computer simulations as well as the vast array of sensors spew out huge data (terabytes to petabytes). Thus, efficient data analytics and visualisation tools immensely aid the researcher to infer knowledge from data," says Prof Seshu.

Prof Samir K Brahmachari, Director-General CSIR told Express that such a facility would play a crucial role in empowering data intensive scientific discovery in the fourth paradigm of science. "Today all the 40 CSIR labs in India are interconnected using the National Knowledge Network (NKN) which enables all the scientists to access the supercomputing facility remotely. The new system would enhance the capabilities in areas such as genome analysis, weather modelling, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and the like," Prof Bramachari said.

Bangalore to get India's fastest supercomputer | supercomputer | | The New Indian Express

 

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Slow ... It will barely make the top 50 in the world.

 

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Intel Xeon E-5 to power India's fastest supercomputer

source : Intel Xeon E-5 to power India's fastest supercomputer - Corporate News - livemint.com

The Intel Xeon E-5-2600 processor family that started selling in India on Wednesday will power what is to be nation's fastest supercomputer, to be set up at the Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation (C-MMACS), a unit of Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), in Bangalore.

The C-MMACs system will be made available to all 37 labs of CSIR—the country's largest public sector research organization—and allied facilities, and can thus be used for a range of applications from climate-modelling to computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in aerospace.

An Intel Corp. logo sits on display at the company's promotional stand at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on 27 February 2012


An Intel Corp. logo sits on display at the company's promotional stand at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on 27 February 2012
The project will cost about Rs 50 crore and while it was decided that Intel Xeon E-5 would be the processor, a decision was yet to be taken on the equipment vendor and integrator, said R.P. Thangavelu, a scientist at C-MMACS in charge of the project. "It should be ready in about six months," he said.

According to Intel, the processor, which has eight cores compared with the earlier six-core version, is being offered in different variants with costs ranging from $198 to $2,050 each, in quantities of 1,000.

Thangavelu said the C-MMACS system is expected to use about 2,000 Xeon eight-core processors. At eight cores per processor, that is akin to the power of 16,000 computers. Intel made available early versions of the Xeon E-5 to C-MMACS for evaluation. The C-MMACS system will operate at about 270 teraflops—more than twice the speed of the existing fastest system that uses an earlier, dual-core version of the Xeon, the Xeon-3, at the Tata group's Computational Research Laboratories (CRL) Ltd in Pune.

One teraflop is the ability to process one trillion mathematical operations in a second.

The CRL system operates at 133 teraflops on the Linpack Benchmark Performance, a supercomputing capability measure known as R-max. Its theoretical peak performance, known as R-peak, is 172 teraflops.

Recently, the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) at Trivandrum, of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), commissioned a system from Wipro Ltd at an R-peak of 220 teraflops.

But this system does not feature in the list of India's fastest supercomputers maintained by the Indian Institute of Science's (IISc) Super Computer Education and Research Centre, as the R-max is not provided. The ISRO system is mentioned separately.

"The R-max is what gives you the figure for sustained performance," Thangavelu said. "We expect ours to be the fastest."

The next fastest supercomputer on the IISc list is a 46 teraflop machine based on IBM processors at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, also at Pune. The New Indian Express first reported about C-MMACS's project to make India's fastest supercomputer on 28 February.

The ISRO system runs a CFD programme called Paras 3-D, and Wipro executives had said earlier that they were planning to eventually increase the capacity of their superconductor to 500 teraflops. From an equipment vendor perspective, IBM leads the supercomputing marketshare, followed by Cray and Hewlett-Packard. The processors are mostly by Intel, followed by AMD. The Wipro system is unusual in that it uses an NVidia graphical processor as against a conventional central processing units. R. Ravichandran, business development director, Asia-Pacific, at Intel, said the new Xeons offer 80% more performance than earlier versions. The government has announced new initiatives to promote supercomputing as part of its vision for the 12th Plan period (2012-17). India's supercomputers lag far behind the world's fastest systems.

Japan's "K Computer", the first supercomputer to hit 10 petaflops, tops the global list, followed by the Chinese ianhe-1A system with 2.57 petaflops. One petaflop is 1,000 teraflops.

The Wall Street Journal reported in October that the US Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in collaboration with Nvidia and AMD, was developing a supercomputer to restore the US' place at the top, using both graphical processing units and central processing units.

 

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Who says we can not calculate missile trajectory or simulate nuke tests ?

I don't know about missile trajectory. But without doing enough real nuke tests and collected enough datas, the accuracy of your simulate model is questionable. And no one is going to share these datas with you.

 

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Seismic Data of Nuclear Tests

Archive Data from Underground Nuclear Tests

 

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Supercomputers: India pitches for $1bn leap to make up for lost ground | Mail Online


India pitches for $1bn leap in supercomputers

Almost two and a half decades after entering the supercomputing race but losing ground thereafter, India is now rebooting with a vengeance. The government has discreetly embarked upon a billiondollar initiative to create next-generation supercomputers.

But unlike the `1,750 ($35) tablet PC, which is unfolding under the glare of high-voltage publicity, the supercomputing programme is shrouded in secrecy. So much so, the plan details have not yet been shared with scientists who have developed such mega machines in the past.

The government has committed `5,000 crore (nearly $1billion) for the plan, making it the largest ever grant for a single research programme since Independence. The money is likely to start flowing during the 12th five-year plan period.

The only jarring aspect of the project is that its reins are being handed over to the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, which has only been a user and not a designer or developer of supercomputers.

India had begun its foray in supercomputing nearly 25 years ago after the U.S. denied it a supercomputer meant for weather research. When the first Indian supercomputer, PARAM, was launched in 1991, India was only the third country in the world to possess supercomputing power after the U.S. and Japan. China joined the race 10 years later than India but surpassed it soon.

The current initiative, conceived in the Prime Minister's Office and nurtured by the Planning Commission, is a direct response to the Chinese challenge.

Currently, Indian supercomputers are at a teraflop stage. This means they can perform several trillion floating point operations per second. China, Japan and the U.S. have already achieved petaflop capability. Such supercomputers are able to perform a thousand trillion floating point operations per second.

These countries have also begun work on the next level - exascale - to develop machines with the capacity of an exaflop or one million teraflops.

In order to remain in the race, India would first need to develop a petaflop machine and then aim for exascale. When contacted, Dr T. Ramasami, secretary, department of science and technology, confirmed the development, revealing that the programme had been conceived with a view 'to position India strongly in supercomputing' and would be implemented in mission mode.

A detailed project report was ready and loose ends, if any, would be tied up soon.
Earlier this month, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had announced at the Indian Science Congress at Bhubaneswar in Odisha that the IISc would spearhead the project.

'All knowledge institutions would be linked, but will be coordinated by the IISc,' Ramasami elaborated.
While the decision to rejoin the race could be a good strategic move, the choice of IISc as the leader of this ambitious programme has left experts baffled. The institute has never planned, designed and developed supercomputers in the past. In fact, its supercomputer centre is mostly focused on academic research and education. The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) - it has developed a series of supercomputers, including PARAM, and already prepared a roadmap for a petaflop machine - would strangely have to play second fiddle to the IISc.
Other scientific agencies such as those working in the fields of defence, atomic energy, space and aerospace labs, too, have proven expertise in supercomputer design and architecture. In the private sector, Eka - a supercomputer developed by Tata's Computational Research Laboratories - became the world's fourth most powerful system in 2007.

'We lost ground to late entrants such as China only because of inadequate investment and a fragmented approach to supercomputing. And when the government is ready to invest, it has decided to make a non-player the captain of the game,' a leading scientist, who has been involved in developing supercomputers, said.

The government, he added, had overlooked indigenous design expertise developed over the past 25 years.

'The IISc has its own strengths, but somehow it doesn't spring to mind as the first choice for the nodal agency,' Anand Parthasarathy, formerly a scientist in the supercomputing team of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), felt. He is currently the editor of IndiaTechOnline.com.

The idea of bringing back India into the mainstream of high performance computing, he said, could be best implemented through a consortium of agencies such as CDAC, DRDO, BARC (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre) and Tata's CRL.

All of them have proven expertise in designing and developing supercomputers. 'They should come together in an "ego-less" public-private alliance to pool their strengths and deliver a truly Indian platform for exascale computing,' Parthasarathy added.

After China emerged a global leader in supercomputing in 2010, sources said the pioneer of CDAC supercomputers, Dr Vijay Bhatkar, had shared a blueprint on 'Building Exascale Supercomputing Capability' with government agencies.
The plan had mentioned an investment of Rs 500 crore to build a petascale facility in two years and Rs 5000 crore for reaching the exascale capacity by 2020.

Bhatkar, however, did not comment on the latest development.
'Right now, we are in the dark about what the PM's initiative is all about. No timelines, responsibilities and technological options have been revealed to anyone. Such a large scientific programme should be carried out in an open, transparent manner and should be peer-reviewed,' a Bangalore- based scientist said.

 

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HPCwire: India Preparing to Deploy Its Fastest Supercomputer

India Preparing to Deploy Its Fastest Supercomputer


A news item from Bangalore reports that India will soon be installing the country's fastest supercomputer at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Center for Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulation (CSIR C-MMACS). The facility was established in the late 1980s to provide a regional center for high-end scientific computation.

At 250 teraflops, the new supercomputer will be more than ten times as fast as the top system currently installed at CSIR C-MMACS, a 27-teraflop SGI Altix ICE machine, and nearly twice as fast as "EKA," India's current king of the supercomputing hill. The center has plans to upgrade the new system over the next few years, and is aiming at a future capacity in excess of 10 petaflops, 40 times faster than the original deployment.

The supercomputer will also be remotely accessible from any of the 40 current CSIR labs connected to the India's National Knowledge Network. Researchers will be able to use the system to work on genomics, geoscience, computational fluid dynamics and applications for the development of new drugs and materials. Future plans include a datacenter at the C-MMACS facility in Belur, and a visualization hyperwall setup.

In the news report from Bangalore, Professor Seshu, who heads C-MMACS, explained the rationale for the new system. "Present high-fidelity computer simulations as well as the vast array of sensors spew out huge data (terabytes to petabytes)," said Seshu. "Thus, efficient data analytics and visualization tools immensely aid the researcher to infer knowledge from data."

India currently has only two systems on the latest TOP500 list, both performing under 200 teraflops. That puts it behind 21 other countries on the list on the basis of peaks flops. India's central government is looking to improve on those stats with a 6,000 crore ($1.2 billion) investment to "propel India into the elite supercomputing club".

Takeaway

India's five-year investment plan to improve their supercomputing capacity is recognition that the country must remain step up its HPC game if it wants to keep pace with other regions. Since the European have plans to double their high performance computing investment to 1.2 billion Euros/year and China is aggressively building out its HPC capacity and facilities, India has to increase its investments substantially if it wants to avoid falling further behind

 

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India gives away supercomputing gains

India gives away supercomputing gains - Home - livemint.com

In November 2007, India's Eka was ranked the world's fourth-largest supercomputer. Built by the Computational Research Laboratories Ltd (CRL), a unit of Tata Sons, the Hewlett-Packard (HP) system cost $30 million (around Rs.165 crore) and was built in just six weeks.

It was the first time that an Indian supercomputer figured among the world's top 10.

The country had nine supercomputers in that Top 500 list, with two of them being in the Top 100—the other being an IBM system from the Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science (IISc). China, on the other hand, had 10 supercomputers in the November 2007 list but just one, ranked 59, in the Top 100 list.

Four-and-a-half years later, the tables have turned dramatically.

According to the June 2012 Top 500 Supercomputers list (it is published twice in a year), Eka is now ranked 129. Two supercomputers figure in the top 100—the CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation (C-MMACS), ranked 58, and SAGA-220, developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) and the IISc to solve complex aerospace problems, which is ranked 86. China, on the other hand, has raced ahead with 68 supercomputers, of which seven figure in the Top 100, with an NUDT supercomputer from the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin ranked 5. A US"ƒsupercomputer named Sequoia—an IBM BlueGene/Q system installed at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory—tops the list. Fujitsu's K Computer installed at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) in Kobe, Japan, is now the No. 2 system. It held the No. 1 spot on the previous two lists.

The US is a clear leader in the high performance computing (HPC) segment with 253 of the 500 systems, followed by Europe with 107 systems. Dominant countries in Asia are China (68) and Japan with 34 systems.

Supercomputers, introduced in the 1960s and designed primarily by Seymour Cray at the Control Data Corp. (CDC), are used for calculation-intensive tasks such as problems relating to quantum physics, weather forecasting, climate research, oil and gas exploration, molecular modelling and physical simulations, detonation of nuclear weapons and research into nuclear fusion.

PARAM 8000 is considered India's first supercomputer. It was built by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) with Russian collaboration. The C-MMACS Intel-powered systems will be used for a range of applications from climate-modelling to computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in aerospace. The project, reported Mint in March, will cost about Rs.50 crore. The National PARAM Supercomputing Facility (NPSF), which houses the PARAM Yuva, and the Bioinformatics Resources and Applications Facility (BRAF), which houses the Biogene and BioChrome supercomputing cluster, are used by researchers to solve problems in atmospheric sciences, nanosciences, strategic areas of engineering and research in cancer besides biomolecular drug research. But India sorely lacks speed in this area with the country's supercomputers confined to teraflops (trillions of calculations per second). Getting to the petaflop level would mean increasing the processor power by 10 times and the cooling to 4,000 tonnes, besides the increase in floor space, all of which require a new architecture since growth in scale becomes non-linear at this stage, say experts.

SAGA-220 is powered by NVIDIA's Tesla chips and Vishal Dhupar, managing director, sales and"ƒmarketing, NVIDIA India, said for India to get into the big supercomputing league, it needed a "high performance computing ecosystem which involved hardware, storage capacity and scalable application software". He explained that data centres and power are critical for supercomputers.

"A decent supercomputer would require 5-10 megawatts (MW) of power. Now that's a problem in a country like India which faces a power shortage," said Dhupar. He added that China had taken "bigger steps and hence has got the edge".

"Supercomputer is a very niche area like car racing. Not all countries take it seriously all the time. Some like the US, Japan and Germany take it seriously all the time. China has taken it super serious. India, as usual, goes through fits and starts—CDAC Param once, Param Padma next, Eka suddenly," said S. Sadagopan, director of the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Bangalore. "Institute of Mathematical Sciences, in Chennai built one, C-MACCS is building a real super one. They plan to build one more by 2017—perhaps the most focused effort. In essence, we are doing okay, not great. It is also an expensive proposition."

Dhupar also pointed out the importance of combining "gaming processor units (GPUs) that are capable of handling the heavy computing tasks, while freeing the central processing units (CPUs) for other basic computing".

"Only 60 of the top 500 supercomputers have GPUs and CPUs. This is bound to change in the coming years," he said.

Meanwhile, the government needs to do much more if it wants India to compete in the big league, say experts. On 6 June, Ashwani Kumar, minister of state for planning, science and technology, said the government had allocated Rs.5,000 crore in the 12th Five-Year Plan to help India join the big league in supercomputing. He made the statement while visiting the National Chemical Laboratory in Pune.

 

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India to Predict Monsoon Rains With Supercomputer Accuracy | Popular Science

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[roma]

this post is re-written as given below in order to quote a post from OOEs' line of argument that india lacks enough data from real nuke tests in order to simulate

 

[roma]

well there is no problem if india goes for nuclear test now apart from a little fuss from china,pakistan,america,eu,nsg but the problem is that after signing the nuclear deal with US manmohan singh has entangled our strategic nuclear programme in a spiders web.many country will impose restictions on us and the civilian nuclear sector depends heavily on uranium imports until india perfects the thoriunm cycle.

alternatively we could say that MMS's signing the nuke deal gives india uranium supplies , until we get our thorium program going at the better required level - we bought time via the deal ?