C-DAC unveils India’s fastest supercomputer

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C-DAC unveils India’s fastest supercomputer


PUNE: Precise weather forecasting, faster tapping of natural resources in the sea and designing of customised drugs for individuals will now be possible using Param Yuva II, India's fastest supercomputer. Developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Param Yuva II was inaugurated by J Satyanarayana, secretary, department of electronics and information technology, here on Friday.

The supercomputer has been upgraded to 524 teraflops, about 10 times faster than the present facility. With an investment of Rs 16 crore, it was developed in a record three months.

Param Yuva II will also give a boost to research in space and bioinformatics, among others. Developing research-based applications will take lesser time than before and complex problems will be solved in a simpler way. For instance, if it takes about 18 to 20 years to discover a new drug now — from designing to testing — Param Yuva II will help reduce this time to 15 years. The supercomputer would also help in reducing the time-frame in weather predictions. If researchers currently collect satellite data to predict the conditions for a six-km region, the supercomputer could help cover a wider region, may be up to 10 km.

About 300 people from the C-DAC team were involved in the making of the supercomputer, which also promises to be energy efficient with 35% reduction in energy consumption as compared to the earlier facility.

Satyanarayana said, "The facility is a stepping stone for the petaflop version of the supercomputer that India has envisioned. What we need to do now is speak to users, researchers and scientists and take feedback from them on the issues relating to usage of the facility and help them in accelerating their research work for the benefit of common man."

C-DAC director general Rajat Moona said, "Although we initiated the project in June 2012, we only intended that it would upgrade the facility. However, we later realised that it could be upgraded to half-a-petaflop (524 teraflop) and we achieved this within three months."

Moona said, "The list of top 500 supercomputers in the world is released twice in a year, in June and November. Had we launched Param Yuva II in November, it would have been in the 62nd position."



C-DAC unveils India’s fastest supercomputer - The Times of India

 

[karan21]

Still we are stuck in tera age. Abe Ch**iyas we need to enter the age of petaflops. China, Japan, Usa and even small Euro nations are now ahead of us. . Where is Sibal's dream to make India the top dawg of supercomputing by 20xx.

 

[sans]

Ushering a moment of pride for the country, J. Satyanarayana, Secretary, Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Government of India, launched PARAM Yuva - II, the new 500 TeraFlop version of its earlier PARAM Yuva at C-DAC Pune, yesterday.

With the launch of PARAM Yuva –II, C-DAC has taken a quantum jump towards creating a general purpose research-oriented computational environment. This system is designed to solve large and complex computational problems. This will provide an opportunity for new scientific endeavors for the research community. By making use of hybrid technology, the increase in peak compute power from 54 Teraflop/s to 524 Teraflop/s has been achieved without any significant change in the electrical power consumed by the facility.

India's fastest, now here (Image credit: Getty Images)



The system achieved a sustained performance of 360.8 Teraflop/s on Community standard Linpack benchmark. In comparison to November 2012 List of World’s Top 500 supercomputers, PARAM Yuva – II would have stood at 62nd position in the world and at number 1 position in the country. In terms of power efficiency, it is better than most supercomputing systems and would have achieved 33rd position in the November 2012 List of Top Green 500 supercomputers of the world.

Satyanarayana dedicated the new and powerful supercomputer to the High Performance Computing (HPC) user community in the country. The launch of PARAM Yuva II was conducted as part of the Workshop on National Mission on Supercomputing being organised by C-DAC, Pune.

Speaking on the occasion of the launch, Satyanarayana congratulated C-DAC for achieving the 500 TF compute power and reiterated the support of the Indian government to “establish India’s place as the primary destination for advanced R&D across the global landscape. While the Indian IT sector has always been at the top, the dynamics of the market especially in the light of financial meltdowns force us to take a relook at juggling our priorities. Advanced R&D in emerging areas can be a major interest area for India as nations struggle to find viable solutions within budget constraints. Computational infrastructure and trained manpower will be the initial pre-requisites to take the initiative forward. The Government of India has always been in support of the R&D community and with institutions like C-DAC leading the way forward, the future certainly looks bright for the nation.”

PARAM Yuva – II provides more than half a Petaflop of raw compute power using hybrid compute technology with compute co-processor and hardware accelerators. The interconnection network comprises home grown PARAMNet-III and Infiniband FDR System Area Network. PARAM Yuva –II has 200 Terabytes of high performance storage and support software for parallel computing.

Addressing the media, Prof Rajat Moona, Director General, C-DAC, expressed his happiness and pride "to be able to deliver India’s first 500 TF supercomputer through C-DAC. Way back in 1991, C-DAC had successfully designed, developed and launched the first ever supercomputer in India. Over the subsequent years, C-DAC has consolidated its capabilities in the supercomputing arena to be able to proliferate its key benefits to the scientific community in the form of national supercomputing facilities. C-DAC has also set the precedent by developing the first Gigascale and first Terascale system in the country. C-DAC is committed to grow supercomputing technologies and applications further in collaboration with various agencies in India and abroad.”

With this launch, C-DAC also becomes the first R&D institution in India to cross the 500 TF milestone.

Also present on the occasion were Prof. N. Balakrishnan, Associate Director, IISc, Prof Rajat Moona, Director General, C-DAC, Dr Pradeep K Sinha, Sr Director (HPC), Dr Hemant Darbari, Executive Director, C-DAC, Pune, Dr Sarat C Babu, Executive Director, C-DAC, Bengaluru and other senior officials from R&D institutions across the nation.

India's fastest supercomputer Param Yuva-II launched

 

[Safriz]

Crysis will run at crazy resolutions on this one

 

[1ndy]

can i expect a PetaFlop version by the end of this year or early 2014?

 

[black_jack]

can i expect a PetaFlop version by the end of this year or early 2014?

Big NO to your question

 

[Skull and Bones]

Still we are stuck in tera age. Abe Ch**iyas we need to enter the age of petaflops. China, Japan, Usa and even small Euro nations are now ahead of us. . Where is Sibal's dream to make India the top dawg of supercomputing by 20xx.

Rather than going for a d!ck measuring contest, we should implement a clutter of cheaper application specific super computers.

 

[Bobby]

Crysis will run at crazy resolutions on this one

What Pakistan got?.....just curious...