DRDO ANURAG's VLSI Designs & Microprocessors Used in Indian Missiles & Strategic Systems

[scientien]

IBM just made 7nm chip. I am a noob wrt semi-conductors but did I see 90nm technology?

22nm is standard current manufacturing scale,and is being phased out and 14nm tech is coming and 90nm is not bad, it means we are progressing,some of our labs in iisc can produce up to 14nm but no confirmation through official sources.

 

[TimeTraveller]

A semiconductor fab plant requires the following -

>>Investment.
>>Resources (Water, Electricity, Land)
>>Technology.
>>Skilled Work force. (Technicians, experts, etc)

(01) Investment - Fab needs min $5B investment, which is a significant amount. The private investors would expect Govt of India to contribute some share for this investment on Public-Private partnership model. Across globe, governments like Taiwan, China have partially fund the Fabs.

(02) Resources - This is the biggest issue with India, because of which foreign investors are afraid of investing huge capital cost in India. Surplus Pure Water and Uninterrupted Power supply are required. No need to tell about issues with Land acquisition in India.

(03) Technology and (04) Skilled work force - This is not big issue. We can achieve it.

Expecting large scale Fab plants at this stage is too early considering the entire Electronics ecosystem in India

Instead of committing for Multi Billion Fab plant, we need to ramp up the PCB manufacturing facilities gradually and then plan for Fab plant over a period of 10-15 years.

Now, We could import Chips from Taiwan,China and start manufacturing PCBs and assembling. Then, over the period, we could get the trained workforce on all aspects of electronics manufacturing/assembly and build the complete eco-system and achieve the investors confidence.

A good watch on the same -

Thanks Bhai.......

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

CDAC plans to set up local unit to design microprocessors - The Pune-based centre is looking at developing a complete ecosystem, including reference designs, manpower, and manufacturing units.

CDAC plans to set up local unit to design microprocessors - Livemint

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

@TimeTraveller @eyeswideshut @Sneaker @scientien @itachiii @nForce - Here's an excellent piece by Vinod Dham - Father of the Intel's Pentium Chips as to whether if India really need a $5bn semiconductor unit?

Does India really need a $5bn semiconductor unit?​

By Vinod Dham

There has been for a long time, an on-again and off-again debate about whether India needs a fab. A fab is a plant for manufacturing semiconductor chips, also popularly called silicon chips or simply chips. Silicon chips are ubiquitous today. They are in side all types of gadgets that we use in our daily lives: TVs, computers, cell phones, radios, cars, etc.

So clearly there is a big market for making these chips and, therefore, a case can be made that India should build its own fab to meet India's domestic needs. Chip building business is highly competitive and cyclical. It has been around for over 50 years and there are very well established and well entrenched players. The most recent chip fab, China's state funded SMIC (Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation founded in 2000), has failed to make a dent in the chip making industry despite 15 years of state-sponsored effort.

Building a fab is a very expensive undertaking. While Moore's law (named after Gordon Moore, Intel's co-founder and observer of this trend) has commoditized semiconductor chips resulting in a staggering reduction of roughly a factor of a billion in price over the last 50 years, the cost of manufacturing equipment for these chips has also increased exponentially over this period. To build a fab using current state-of-the-art technology costs about $5bn (Rs 30,000 crore) initially.

In addition, the fab will required to be retooled every two to three years, at an additional enormous cost, to stay competitive. The cost of building and retooling a chip plant has become so prohibitive that in USA only one company, Intel, has the wherewithal to build its own chip plant. In fact, the astronomical cost of building a fab has forced chip companies to pool together their financial resources to set up plants like "Global Foundries" for manufacturing their chips.

Even if we were to build a fab in India despite such prohibitive reoccurring financial undertaking, one of the biggest challenges will be what chips to make in them and how to keep the fab fully loaded. Let us say we decide to build chips for cell phones. The top three popular selling cell phone brands in India are Samsung, Micromax and Nokia. Since a new Indian fab will offer no competitive advantage in terms of price or performance, it will be hard to convince Samsung, Micromax or Nokia to build their chips in this fab.

This same logic prevails for building chips for the TV, personal computers, automotive and other such markets. And even if all three cell phone suppliers were to agree to build their chips in India, the volume of these chips may not be enough to keep the fab fully utilized. Running a partially filled fab is like flying a partially filled Dreamliner — a losing value proposition.

One way to, however, get around the issue of how to keep the fab fully utilized is to invite someone like Samsung or Intel set up a plant in India to meet their own global market needs, including those for their sales in India. Clearly, the Indian government will still need to guarantee uninterrupted electric supply and millions of gallons of water to run these plants besides importing very expensive highly skilled semiconductor specialists to manage the fab's highly automated and expensive equipment.

Thus, given enough subsidies and incentives, if a foreign MNC could still justify building their chips in India, it will be a good way for India to get into the business of building chips. Over a very long period of time, such a move could end up creating a critical mass of an ecosystem required to sustain such a business in the long run.

Recently, the Indian government has expressed concerns about security risks posed by the use of some foreign-made chips. India is reportedly considering a proposal to make it mandatory for the core strategic sectors of defence, space, atomic energy and cyber security to use 'made in India' chips to protect its national security needs while kick-starting the domestic semiconductor manufacturing business. Unfortunately, these sectors alone can't generate enough volume to justify a state-of-the-art fab, besides the concerns I have discussed earlier.

However, once the government has defined and designed such special chips, it may be better to build them in an older generation fab. The older fab could cost one fifth to one tenth of the state-of-the-art fab and be optimal for producing lower volume, larger variety, mixed signal chips with higher reliability resulting from use of more mature technology.

Cyber-security has become a major concern for countries and companies worldwide. Cyber-security is very essential for national security. The entire cyber-warfare infrastructure in the USA is reportedly based on information technology consisting of standard networks of low cost computing devices. The secret to addressing this concern in a practical manner for India is to strategically use software (India's strength) and firmware as its secret sauce. Moreover, India should implement a "Trusted Manufacturer's Program" for its core strategic needs. This program should be designed to certify chips, software and systems produced by foreign manufacturers and avoid buying from adversary countries.

The writer is an inventor, entrepreneur and venture capitalist

Source:- Does India really need a $5bn semiconductor unit? - The Times of India

 

[TimeTraveller]

@TimeTraveller @eyeswideshut @Sneaker @scientien @itachiii @nForce - Here's an excellent piece by Vinod Dham - Father of the Intel's Pentium Chips as to whether if India really need a $5bn semiconductor unit?

Does India really need a $5bn semiconductor unit?​

By Vinod Dham

There has been for a long time, an on-again and off-again debate about whether India needs a fab. A fab is a plant for manufacturing semiconductor chips, also popularly called silicon chips or simply chips. Silicon chips are ubiquitous today. They are in side all types of gadgets that we use in our daily lives: TVs, computers, cell phones, radios, cars, etc.

So clearly there is a big market for making these chips and, therefore, a case can be made that India should build its own fab to meet India's domestic needs. Chip building business is highly competitive and cyclical. It has been around for over 50 years and there are very well established and well entrenched players. The most recent chip fab, China's state funded SMIC (Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation founded in 2000), has failed to make a dent in the chip making industry despite 15 years of state-sponsored effort.

Building a fab is a very expensive undertaking. While Moore's law (named after Gordon Moore, Intel's co-founder and observer of this trend) has commoditized semiconductor chips resulting in a staggering reduction of roughly a factor of a billion in price over the last 50 years, the cost of manufacturing equipment for these chips has also increased exponentially over this period. To build a fab using current state-of-the-art technology costs about $5bn (Rs 30,000 crore) initially.

In addition, the fab will required to be retooled every two to three years, at an additional enormous cost, to stay competitive. The cost of building and retooling a chip plant has become so prohibitive that in USA only one company, Intel, has the wherewithal to build its own chip plant. In fact, the astronomical cost of building a fab has forced chip companies to pool together their financial resources to set up plants like "Global Foundries" for manufacturing their chips.

Even if we were to build a fab in India despite such prohibitive reoccurring financial undertaking, one of the biggest challenges will be what chips to make in them and how to keep the fab fully loaded. Let us say we decide to build chips for cell phones. The top three popular selling cell phone brands in India are Samsung, Micromax and Nokia. Since a new Indian fab will offer no competitive advantage in terms of price or performance, it will be hard to convince Samsung, Micromax or Nokia to build their chips in this fab.

This same logic prevails for building chips for the TV, personal computers, automotive and other such markets. And even if all three cell phone suppliers were to agree to build their chips in India, the volume of these chips may not be enough to keep the fab fully utilized. Running a partially filled fab is like flying a partially filled Dreamliner — a losing value proposition.

One way to, however, get around the issue of how to keep the fab fully utilized is to invite someone like Samsung or Intel set up a plant in India to meet their own global market needs, including those for their sales in India. Clearly, the Indian government will still need to guarantee uninterrupted electric supply and millions of gallons of water to run these plants besides importing very expensive highly skilled semiconductor specialists to manage the fab's highly automated and expensive equipment.

Thus, given enough subsidies and incentives, if a foreign MNC could still justify building their chips in India, it will be a good way for India to get into the business of building chips. Over a very long period of time, such a move could end up creating a critical mass of an ecosystem required to sustain such a business in the long run.

Recently, the Indian government has expressed concerns about security risks posed by the use of some foreign-made chips. India is reportedly considering a proposal to make it mandatory for the core strategic sectors of defence, space, atomic energy and cyber security to use 'made in India' chips to protect its national security needs while kick-starting the domestic semiconductor manufacturing business. Unfortunately, these sectors alone can't generate enough volume to justify a state-of-the-art fab, besides the concerns I have discussed earlier.

However, once the government has defined and designed such special chips, it may be better to build them in an older generation fab. The older fab could cost one fifth to one tenth of the state-of-the-art fab and be optimal for producing lower volume, larger variety, mixed signal chips with higher reliability resulting from use of more mature technology.

Cyber-security has become a major concern for countries and companies worldwide. Cyber-security is very essential for national security. The entire cyber-warfare infrastructure in the USA is reportedly based on information technology consisting of standard networks of low cost computing devices. The secret to addressing this concern in a practical manner for India is to strategically use software (India's strength) and firmware as its secret sauce. Moreover, India should implement a "Trusted Manufacturer's Program" for its core strategic needs. This program should be designed to certify chips, software and systems produced by foreign manufacturers and avoid buying from adversary countries.

The writer is an inventor, entrepreneur and venture capitalist

Source:- Does India really need a $5bn semiconductor unit? - The Times of India

Thanks For Tagging Sir................Nice Sir.........

 

[Sneaker]

@TimeTraveller @eyeswideshut @Sneaker @scientien @itachiii @nForce - Here's an excellent piece by Vinod Dham - Father of the Intel's Pentium Chips as to whether if India really need a $5bn semiconductor unit?

Does India really need a $5bn semiconductor unit?​

By Vinod Dham

There has been for a long time, an on-again and off-again debate about whether India needs a fab. A fab is a plant for manufacturing semiconductor chips, also popularly called silicon chips or simply chips. Silicon chips are ubiquitous today. They are in side all types of gadgets that we use in our daily lives: TVs, computers, cell phones, radios, cars, etc.

So clearly there is a big market for making these chips and, therefore, a case can be made that India should build its own fab to meet India's domestic needs. Chip building business is highly competitive and cyclical. It has been around for over 50 years and there are very well established and well entrenched players. The most recent chip fab, China's state funded SMIC (Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation founded in 2000), has failed to make a dent in the chip making industry despite 15 years of state-sponsored effort.

Building a fab is a very expensive undertaking. While Moore's law (named after Gordon Moore, Intel's co-founder and observer of this trend) has commoditized semiconductor chips resulting in a staggering reduction of roughly a factor of a billion in price over the last 50 years, the cost of manufacturing equipment for these chips has also increased exponentially over this period. To build a fab using current state-of-the-art technology costs about $5bn (Rs 30,000 crore) initially.

In addition, the fab will required to be retooled every two to three years, at an additional enormous cost, to stay competitive. The cost of building and retooling a chip plant has become so prohibitive that in USA only one company, Intel, has the wherewithal to build its own chip plant. In fact, the astronomical cost of building a fab has forced chip companies to pool together their financial resources to set up plants like "Global Foundries" for manufacturing their chips.

Even if we were to build a fab in India despite such prohibitive reoccurring financial undertaking, one of the biggest challenges will be what chips to make in them and how to keep the fab fully loaded. Let us say we decide to build chips for cell phones. The top three popular selling cell phone brands in India are Samsung, Micromax and Nokia. Since a new Indian fab will offer no competitive advantage in terms of price or performance, it will be hard to convince Samsung, Micromax or Nokia to build their chips in this fab.

This same logic prevails for building chips for the TV, personal computers, automotive and other such markets. And even if all three cell phone suppliers were to agree to build their chips in India, the volume of these chips may not be enough to keep the fab fully utilized. Running a partially filled fab is like flying a partially filled Dreamliner — a losing value proposition.

One way to, however, get around the issue of how to keep the fab fully utilized is to invite someone like Samsung or Intel set up a plant in India to meet their own global market needs, including those for their sales in India. Clearly, the Indian government will still need to guarantee uninterrupted electric supply and millions of gallons of water to run these plants besides importing very expensive highly skilled semiconductor specialists to manage the fab's highly automated and expensive equipment.

Thus, given enough subsidies and incentives, if a foreign MNC could still justify building their chips in India, it will be a good way for India to get into the business of building chips. Over a very long period of time, such a move could end up creating a critical mass of an ecosystem required to sustain such a business in the long run.

Recently, the Indian government has expressed concerns about security risks posed by the use of some foreign-made chips. India is reportedly considering a proposal to make it mandatory for the core strategic sectors of defence, space, atomic energy and cyber security to use 'made in India' chips to protect its national security needs while kick-starting the domestic semiconductor manufacturing business. Unfortunately, these sectors alone can't generate enough volume to justify a state-of-the-art fab, besides the concerns I have discussed earlier.

However, once the government has defined and designed such special chips, it may be better to build them in an older generation fab. The older fab could cost one fifth to one tenth of the state-of-the-art fab and be optimal for producing lower volume, larger variety, mixed signal chips with higher reliability resulting from use of more mature technology.

Cyber-security has become a major concern for countries and companies worldwide. Cyber-security is very essential for national security. The entire cyber-warfare infrastructure in the USA is reportedly based on information technology consisting of standard networks of low cost computing devices. The secret to addressing this concern in a practical manner for India is to strategically use software (India's strength) and firmware as its secret sauce. Moreover, India should implement a "Trusted Manufacturer's Program" for its core strategic needs. This program should be designed to certify chips, software and systems produced by foreign manufacturers and avoid buying from adversary countries.

The writer is an inventor, entrepreneur and venture capitalist

Source:- Does India really need a $5bn semiconductor unit? - The Times of India

We may not go for commercial scale, just enough to satisfy defence needs...

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

France’s Altran buys Indian semiconductor design firm SiConTech - It is the first deal in the semiconductor space in which a foreign multinational corporation has acquired an Indian start-up.

According to the India Electronics and Semiconductor Association, the Indian electronic system design and manufacturing industry is expected to touch $400 billion by 2020, up from $94 billion in 2015.

France’s Altran buys semiconductor design company SiConTech - Livemint

 

[proud_indian]

Defence electronics policy in final stages of drafting, likely to announced in September

By Muntazir Abbas, ET Bureau | 31 Jul, 2015, 05.34AM IST


NEW DELHI: The government could announce India's first Defence Electronics Policy, which will seek to streamline procurement and boost local manufacturing, as early as this September with the drafting of the document in its final stages.

The India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA) and the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) - both are involved in the drafting — have recommended strengthening of aerospace and defence ecosystem to boost domestic manufacturing in tandem with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Make in India initiative.

The policy draft will put forth categorical recommendations for immediate, short-term, intermediate and long-term arrangements to boost indigenous production and localised integrators and suppliers.

"The final draft version is almost ready and we will be presenting it to officials in the Ministry of Defense in the second week of August," IESA President and former Karnataka Principal Secretary MN Vidyashankar said. The framework will be unveiled on September 9, during the defence symposium, DEFTRONICS 2015, he said.

Once the draft is presented to the MoD, it will make the necessary changes and seek Cabinet approval, he said.

In December 2014, the MoD gave the task of formulating the draft to the country's premier electronics and software industry bodies. Their targets included streamlining electronics procurement process as the department deals with multiple vendors and finding ways to overcome security issues.

The draft has reached the final stages after several rounds of intense discussions with joint-secretary-level officials at the Ministry of Defense and Department of Defence Production, as well as representatives of Bharat Electronics, Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd and industry. Germany-based consultancy Roland Berger is advising in the process.

Of India's total budgetary allocation, the armed forces' share in 2015-16 is 13.88%, or Rs 2.46 lakh crore. Nearly Rs 1 lakh crore of this is earmarked for equipment component, including about Rs 70,000 crore for electronics procurement, which is largely dependent on imports.

"There lies Rs 70,000 crore worth indigenous production opportunity which could translate into a massive business for domestic manufacturers," Vidyashankar said. The proposed policy is a step towards utilising this, taking care of small-scale units and suppliers, he said.

Defence electronics policy in final stages of drafting, likely to announced in September - The Economic Times

 

[jamahir]

DRDO ANURAG's VLSI Designs & Microprocessors Used in Indian Missiles & Strategic Systems
​

India is considering a proposal to make it mandatory for the strategic sectors of Defence, Space and Atomic Energy to use 'made in India' chips in an initiative that will meet not only national security needs but also kick start the domestic semi-conductor manufacturing business that has been struggling to take off.

Source:- Make in India: Govt may make strategic sector source chips from local manufacturers - The Economic Times

VLSI Designs - Very-large-scale integration (VLSI) is the process of creating an integrated circuit (IC) by combining thousands of transistors into a single chip. VLSI began in the 1970's when complex semiconductor and communication technologies were being developed.

Microprocessors - A microprocessor is a computer processor that incorporates the functions of a computer's central processing unit (CPU) on a single integrated circuit (IC), or at most a few integrated circuits.

Advanced NUmerical Research and Analysis Group (ANURAG) is a laboratory of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). Located in Kanchanbagh, Hyderabad, it is involved in the development of computing solutions for numerical analysis and their use in other DRDO projects.

Since the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) prohibits the proliferation of the same - Here's a list of VLSI designs and microprocessors being used in Indian missiles and other strategic systems including RADAR's, SONAR's, IFF Systems & Torpedoes -

i believe those microprocessors don't use indian design... i think they use the american mips architecture, just like china's loongson line.

the "india microprocessor program", started by min. of info. tech in 2009 is yet unfulfilled... ( Why a made-in-India chip remains chimeric - Livemint ).

if vinod dham really designed the pentium chip, he can as well design a radically new microprocessor for india... if he can.

 

[Echo_419]

Defence electronics policy in final stages of drafting, likely to announced in September

By Muntazir Abbas, ET Bureau | 31 Jul, 2015, 05.34AM IST


NEW DELHI: The government could announce India's first Defence Electronics Policy, which will seek to streamline procurement and boost local manufacturing, as early as this September with the drafting of the document in its final stages.

The India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA) and the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) - both are involved in the drafting — have recommended strengthening of aerospace and defence ecosystem to boost domestic manufacturing in tandem with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Make in India initiative.

The policy draft will put forth categorical recommendations for immediate, short-term, intermediate and long-term arrangements to boost indigenous production and localised integrators and suppliers.

"The final draft version is almost ready and we will be presenting it to officials in the Ministry of Defense in the second week of August," IESA President and former Karnataka Principal Secretary MN Vidyashankar said. The framework will be unveiled on September 9, during the defence symposium, DEFTRONICS 2015, he said.

Once the draft is presented to the MoD, it will make the necessary changes and seek Cabinet approval, he said.

In December 2014, the MoD gave the task of formulating the draft to the country's premier electronics and software industry bodies. Their targets included streamlining electronics procurement process as the department deals with multiple vendors and finding ways to overcome security issues.

The draft has reached the final stages after several rounds of intense discussions with joint-secretary-level officials at the Ministry of Defense and Department of Defence Production, as well as representatives of Bharat Electronics, Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd and industry. Germany-based consultancy Roland Berger is advising in the process.

Of India's total budgetary allocation, the armed forces' share in 2015-16 is 13.88%, or Rs 2.46 lakh crore. Nearly Rs 1 lakh crore of this is earmarked for equipment component, including about Rs 70,000 crore for electronics procurement, which is largely dependent on imports.

"There lies Rs 70,000 crore worth indigenous production opportunity which could translate into a massive business for domestic manufacturers," Vidyashankar said. The proposed policy is a step towards utilising this, taking care of small-scale units and suppliers, he said.

Defence electronics policy in final stages of drafting, likely to announced in September - The Economic Times

Great news

France’s Altran buys Indian semiconductor design firm SiConTech - It is the first deal in the semiconductor space in which a foreign multinational corporation has acquired an Indian start-up.

According to the India Electronics and Semiconductor Association, the Indian electronic system design and manufacturing industry is expected to touch $400 billion by 2020, up from $94 billion in 2015.

France’s Altran buys semiconductor design company SiConTech - Livemint

This highlights our growing capability in this sector

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

Supercomputing Indians... ahoy!

When most of the world’s supercomputing processors are researched and designed in India, why has there been no real presence.

The country has just a tiny fraction of the world’s fastest computers. But our engineers are the best at building the bricks of a supercomputer

Here’s a high-tech irony! In spite of pumping thousands of crores of rupees into multiple government agencies in defence, atomic energy and civilian science for decades, India has a scant presence in the list of the world’s Top 500 supercomputers. The latest list released last month, has 11 India-based systems, representing just two percent of the total computing power. And only two of these can be said to be ‘Made in India’. India is also where the number-crunching technology of almost every single supercomputer used anywhere in the world today, is designed, honed and developed, because Intel’s Xeon family of chips is the most favoured processor for supercomputing. India is one of Intel’s primary centres for Xeon design and development.

When I filtered out the India-based supercomputers in the July 2015 Top 500, 11 systems popped up and all of them had ‘Intel Inside’. “Every supercomputer in India has an Intel component, and the brains of hundreds of Intel High Performance Computing (HPC) engineers from India are making them tick,” says Raj Hazra, Vice-President, Data Centre Group at Intel.

Pradeep Dubey, Intel Fellow and Director of Intel’s Parallel Computing Lab, at Santa Clara, California (US) agrees: “Indians are qualified with the necessary analytical skills required to address the challenges of high performance computing.” Dr Dubey, a product of the Birla Institute of Technology, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Purdue University in the US, has been an Intel veteran for over 20 years and the holder of over 30 patents. He was recently honoured with the Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer Award from Purdue University. He also recently took on a new responsibility of Fellow-in-Residence for Intel India. This means he visits regularly to mentor and guide Intel engineers at the India Development Centre.

His lab always presents a record number of papers at peer events. At the last International Conference for HPC, an Intel paper on the application of supercomputing structures for studying genome networks was a best paper nominee. Of the eight co-authors, six were Indians, including the lead author, Sanchit Misra, four were based in India (from IIT Mumbai and Intel India). Another key paper on peta-flop computing to simulate earthquakes, was co-authored by Dr Dubey and another Indian , Karthikeyan Vaidyanathan. The large number of Indians who contribute to cutting edge research in critical computing is nothing new. In 2007, Intel astonished the tech world by announcing that its engineers had developed a teraflop processor with 80 cores on a single slab of silicon (1 million computing operations per second). We are at up to 18 cores today, an 80-core practical chip is some years away. But eight of the 12 engineers in the team who developed the futuristic prototype were Indians — half of them based in Bengaluru,led by Vasantha Erraguntla.

When so much Indian talent in just one company, why is this huge talent not seen in India’s own National Supercomputing Mission which, earlier this year, was given a seven-year target and a kitty of Rs 4,500 crore?

It is beginning to happen. Dr Dubey’s mandate may soon touch a new initiative — an Intel India Maker Lab in its Bengaluru campus is to accelerate hardware design innovation by boosting product innovation and enhance maker capability for innovators and startups in India. Intel will also work closely with India’s startup ecosystem also through Central and State government programs.

In a connected techno-commercial world it no longer matters who pays your monthly salary. As Intel’s Bengaluru-based engineers brainstorm to take on new supercomputing challenges,they are already ‘India Makers’.

All chip shape
The Intel Xeon E-7 version 3 family of processors which was launched recently, is a key building block for tomorrow’s supercomputing challenges. It has up to 18 cores and 36 separate compute threads. It can gobble up to 12 terabytes of RAM memory and at 2.5 GHz is the zippiest HPC chip currently available, made for a petaflop era. (one peta flop is 1000 teraflops or floating point operations per second) . And like every Xeon chip across 3 generations and 7 iterations, the E-7 v.3 has a strong ‘India connection’.

Source:- Supercomputing Indians... ahoy! | The Asian Age
@Bussard Ramjet @Echo_419 @proud_indian @v9s @TimeTraveller @Sneaker @scientien @itachiii @nForce

 

[proud_indian]

I wish someday I can use designed and fabricated in india chips in my computer.

 

[sumoto]

Nice.
But I would like to see Indian companies achieving that.

 

[Echo_419]

Supercomputing Indians... ahoy!

When most of the world’s supercomputing processors are researched and designed in India, why has there been no real presence.

The country has just a tiny fraction of the world’s fastest computers. But our engineers are the best at building the bricks of a supercomputer

Here’s a high-tech irony! In spite of pumping thousands of crores of rupees into multiple government agencies in defence, atomic energy and civilian science for decades, India has a scant presence in the list of the world’s Top 500 supercomputers. The latest list released last month, has 11 India-based systems, representing just two percent of the total computing power. And only two of these can be said to be ‘Made in India’. India is also where the number-crunching technology of almost every single supercomputer used anywhere in the world today, is designed, honed and developed, because Intel’s Xeon family of chips is the most favoured processor for supercomputing. India is one of Intel’s primary centres for Xeon design and development.

When I filtered out the India-based supercomputers in the July 2015 Top 500, 11 systems popped up and all of them had ‘Intel Inside’. “Every supercomputer in India has an Intel component, and the brains of hundreds of Intel High Performance Computing (HPC) engineers from India are making them tick,” says Raj Hazra, Vice-President, Data Centre Group at Intel.

Pradeep Dubey, Intel Fellow and Director of Intel’s Parallel Computing Lab, at Santa Clara, California (US) agrees: “Indians are qualified with the necessary analytical skills required to address the challenges of high performance computing.” Dr Dubey, a product of the Birla Institute of Technology, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Purdue University in the US, has been an Intel veteran for over 20 years and the holder of over 30 patents. He was recently honoured with the Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer Award from Purdue University. He also recently took on a new responsibility of Fellow-in-Residence for Intel India. This means he visits regularly to mentor and guide Intel engineers at the India Development Centre.

His lab always presents a record number of papers at peer events. At the last International Conference for HPC, an Intel paper on the application of supercomputing structures for studying genome networks was a best paper nominee. Of the eight co-authors, six were Indians, including the lead author, Sanchit Misra, four were based in India (from IIT Mumbai and Intel India). Another key paper on peta-flop computing to simulate earthquakes, was co-authored by Dr Dubey and another Indian , Karthikeyan Vaidyanathan. The large number of Indians who contribute to cutting edge research in critical computing is nothing new. In 2007, Intel astonished the tech world by announcing that its engineers had developed a teraflop processor with 80 cores on a single slab of silicon (1 million computing operations per second). We are at up to 18 cores today, an 80-core practical chip is some years away. But eight of the 12 engineers in the team who developed the futuristic prototype were Indians — half of them based in Bengaluru,led by Vasantha Erraguntla.

When so much Indian talent in just one company, why is this huge talent not seen in India’s own National Supercomputing Mission which, earlier this year, was given a seven-year target and a kitty of Rs 4,500 crore?

It is beginning to happen. Dr Dubey’s mandate may soon touch a new initiative — an Intel India Maker Lab in its Bengaluru campus is to accelerate hardware design innovation by boosting product innovation and enhance maker capability for innovators and startups in India. Intel will also work closely with India’s startup ecosystem also through Central and State government programs.

In a connected techno-commercial world it no longer matters who pays your monthly salary. As Intel’s Bengaluru-based engineers brainstorm to take on new supercomputing challenges,they are already ‘India Makers’.

All chip shape
The Intel Xeon E-7 version 3 family of processors which was launched recently, is a key building block for tomorrow’s supercomputing challenges. It has up to 18 cores and 36 separate compute threads. It can gobble up to 12 terabytes of RAM memory and at 2.5 GHz is the zippiest HPC chip currently available, made for a petaflop era. (one peta flop is 1000 teraflops or floating point operations per second) . And like every Xeon chip across 3 generations and 7 iterations, the E-7 v.3 has a strong ‘India connection’.

Source:- Supercomputing Indians... ahoy! | The Asian Age
@Bussard Ramjet @Echo_419 @proud_indian @v9s @TimeTraveller @Sneaker @scientien @itachiii @nForce

The irony is rich

 

[TimeTraveller]

Supercomputing Indians... ahoy!

When most of the world’s supercomputing processors are researched and designed in India, why has there been no real presence.

The country has just a tiny fraction of the world’s fastest computers. But our engineers are the best at building the bricks of a supercomputer

Here’s a high-tech irony! In spite of pumping thousands of crores of rupees into multiple government agencies in defence, atomic energy and civilian science for decades, India has a scant presence in the list of the world’s Top 500 supercomputers. The latest list released last month, has 11 India-based systems, representing just two percent of the total computing power. And only two of these can be said to be ‘Made in India’. India is also where the number-crunching technology of almost every single supercomputer used anywhere in the world today, is designed, honed and developed, because Intel’s Xeon family of chips is the most favoured processor for supercomputing. India is one of Intel’s primary centres for Xeon design and development.

When I filtered out the India-based supercomputers in the July 2015 Top 500, 11 systems popped up and all of them had ‘Intel Inside’. “Every supercomputer in India has an Intel component, and the brains of hundreds of Intel High Performance Computing (HPC) engineers from India are making them tick,” says Raj Hazra, Vice-President, Data Centre Group at Intel.

Pradeep Dubey, Intel Fellow and Director of Intel’s Parallel Computing Lab, at Santa Clara, California (US) agrees: “Indians are qualified with the necessary analytical skills required to address the challenges of high performance computing.” Dr Dubey, a product of the Birla Institute of Technology, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Purdue University in the US, has been an Intel veteran for over 20 years and the holder of over 30 patents. He was recently honoured with the Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer Award from Purdue University. He also recently took on a new responsibility of Fellow-in-Residence for Intel India. This means he visits regularly to mentor and guide Intel engineers at the India Development Centre.

His lab always presents a record number of papers at peer events. At the last International Conference for HPC, an Intel paper on the application of supercomputing structures for studying genome networks was a best paper nominee. Of the eight co-authors, six were Indians, including the lead author, Sanchit Misra, four were based in India (from IIT Mumbai and Intel India). Another key paper on peta-flop computing to simulate earthquakes, was co-authored by Dr Dubey and another Indian , Karthikeyan Vaidyanathan. The large number of Indians who contribute to cutting edge research in critical computing is nothing new. In 2007, Intel astonished the tech world by announcing that its engineers had developed a teraflop processor with 80 cores on a single slab of silicon (1 million computing operations per second). We are at up to 18 cores today, an 80-core practical chip is some years away. But eight of the 12 engineers in the team who developed the futuristic prototype were Indians — half of them based in Bengaluru,led by Vasantha Erraguntla.

When so much Indian talent in just one company, why is this huge talent not seen in India’s own National Supercomputing Mission which, earlier this year, was given a seven-year target and a kitty of Rs 4,500 crore?

It is beginning to happen. Dr Dubey’s mandate may soon touch a new initiative — an Intel India Maker Lab in its Bengaluru campus is to accelerate hardware design innovation by boosting product innovation and enhance maker capability for innovators and startups in India. Intel will also work closely with India’s startup ecosystem also through Central and State government programs.

In a connected techno-commercial world it no longer matters who pays your monthly salary. As Intel’s Bengaluru-based engineers brainstorm to take on new supercomputing challenges,they are already ‘India Makers’.

All chip shape
The Intel Xeon E-7 version 3 family of processors which was launched recently, is a key building block for tomorrow’s supercomputing challenges. It has up to 18 cores and 36 separate compute threads. It can gobble up to 12 terabytes of RAM memory and at 2.5 GHz is the zippiest HPC chip currently available, made for a petaflop era. (one peta flop is 1000 teraflops or floating point operations per second) . And like every Xeon chip across 3 generations and 7 iterations, the E-7 v.3 has a strong ‘India connection’.

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