India plans fastest supercomputer by 2017

[lonelyman]

The government has drawn a blueprint for developing the next generation of supercomputers that could be 61 times faster than existing machines. Telecom and IT Minister Kapil Sibal is understood to have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sharing the roadmap to develop "petaflop and exaflop range of supercomputers" at an estimated cost of Rs. 4,700 crore over 5 years.

"In his (Sibal) letter, he has said that C-DAC has developed a proposal with a roadmap to develop a petaflop and exaflop range of supercomputers in the country with an outlay of Rs. 4,700 crore," a government official said.

A petaflop is a measure of a computer s processing speed and can be expressed as a thousand trillion floating point operations per second. Exaflop is one quintillion computer operations per second. Simply put, one exaflop is thousand times faster than one petaflop.

The fastest supercomputer in the world, Sequoia, has registered a top computing speed of 16.32 petaflops which is equivalent of computing of power from over 7.8 lakhs high-end laptops put together. If the Indian government approves building exaflop supercomputers, these will be at least 61 times faster than Sequoia, officials said.

India's top supercomputer at present ranks 58th globally in terms of computing speed. Sibal has cited the past record of Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) which was set up in 1987 by then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi after technologically advanced nations denied supply of supercomputer to India in mid-1980s.

"The Minister has written that C-DAC developed first supercomputers in the country, the PARAM series. Presently Param Yuva with 54 teraflop computing power is serving many researchers through Garuda Computing Grid," the official said.

Sibal has proposed that Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DEITY) should be given tasks to coordinate overall supercomputing activities in the country as it has been done in the past.

The proposal made in the letter says that DEITY should be given tasks to set up a National Apex Committee to oversee the implementation of the proposed Supercomputing Mission and C-DAC should establish peta and exascale supercomputing facilities and development activities.

India plans fastest supercomputer by 2017 - Hindustan Times

Mission accomplished, 132.8 exaflops by 2017

 

[deckingraj]

At least this guy is coherent and awake.

but you are still not

 

[52051]

The sad thing is that f you repeat enough times, they will believe you. Sad.

Come on, they talk about PPP-flops, where in india, each india computing flops count as 10000000 flops in rest world, so they have already achieved their goal of running the world bestest supercomputer measured by PPP flops.

 

[faithfulguy]

Come on, they talk about PPP-flops, where in india, each india computing flops count as 10000000 flops in rest world, so they have already achieved their goal of running the world bestest supercomputer measured by PPP flops.

It look like India is calculating computer speed in PPP. They also measure their social ills in PPP as we... And Mars exploration is in PPP as well. They are ahead of USA in Mars exploration in PPP terms.

 

[52051]

It look like India is calculating computer speed in PPP.

And they do it with their very high PPP-IQ.

 

[TruthTheOnlyDefense]

So whats the news? It's 2019 now has India developed a superfast train yet?

 

[Makarena]

yikes, another dream shattered. India is nowhere in the top ten, much less the fastest one. Talk is cheap after all, just like masturbation.

 

[IndoCarib]

Dont know why the chines are worried !

 

[pzkilo]

Dont know why the chines are worried !

What the hell?? why should we be worried???

 

[IndoCarib]

What the hell?? why should we be worried???

Dont know. Exactly my question. Most condescending posts are from Chinese. If for example Nigeria or Brazil developed a super computer, would you not congratulate them instead of mocking ?

 

[Dungeness]

Dont know. Exactly my question. Most condescending posts are from Chinese. If for example Nigeria or Brazil developed a super computer, would you not congratulate them instead of mocking ?

We would if they actually made one. Chinese here are just helping you to do a reality check against your own ambition.

 

[lonelyman]

Dont know. Exactly my question. Most condescending posts are from Chinese. If for example Nigeria or Brazil developed a super computer, would you not congratulate them instead of mocking ?

Because you do this supa powa by 2012, 132.8 exaflops by 2017 stuff too much

Talk less and do more.

So whats the news? It's 2019 now has India developed a superfast train yet?

nah, nah, nah, not even super fast toilets.

super fast mouth definitly

 

[Han Patriot]

Dont know. Exactly my question. Most condescending posts are from Chinese. If for example Nigeria or Brazil developed a super computer, would you not congratulate them instead of mocking ?

Because Nigeria or Brazil are not delusional countries, they know they are poor and dveloping, unlike you boastful supa powans.

 

[52051]

Because Nigeria or Brazil are not delusional countries, they know they are poor and dveloping, unlike you boastful supa powans.

Actually Brail is several times richer than super dope power, and even Nigeria is richer than super dope power.

 

[seesonic]

Dont know. Exactly my question. Most condescending posts are from Chinese. If for example Nigeria or Brazil developed a super computer, would you not congratulate them instead of mocking ?

Exaflops computers are unheard of. Everyone is congratulating indians for being the world first.