India to Commission 10 New C-DAC Developed PARAM Yuva II-class Supercomputers by March 2016 #NSM

[Chanakya's_Chant]

By 2016, India to have 10 new green supercomputers​

The supercomputers will be among the 73 supercomputing facilities planned by the government under a Rs 4,500-crore mission. (Image via Centre for Development of Advanced Computing website)
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The government is planning to build at least 10 green supercomputers by March next year and install them in select universities and colleges, in a move aimed at boosting high performance computing and high-end interdisciplinary research.

Besides being cost effective, these computers will also be built to consume less power.

“Green supercomputers with a different cooling technology have many advantages. This is the need of the hour... We are planning to build all the 73 supercomputer in the green category,” said Professor Rajat Moona, director general of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing that gave India her first supercomputer.

The first executive board meeting of the National Supercomputing Mission was held earlier this month and it was decided to form five committees to oversee implementation of this mission.

The seven-year plan has been divided into two phases — the first three years for construction of the machines and the next four for the applications that will use this grid. The supercomputers will occupy a space of over 20,000 square feet.

These 10 supercomputers will be among the 73 supercomputing facilities planned by the government under a Rs 4,500-crore mission, jointly steered by the departments of science and technology and electronics and information technology. The aim is to network academic and research institutions across the country into a grid. This grid, using the National Knowledge Network (NKN), is in line with the government’s Digital India push. Out of these computers, three would be capable of peta-scale computing – there are only 37 other machines in the world capable of this.

Peta-scale computing refers to the ability to add at least a quadrillion (1,000 trillion) real numbers in a second. “This speed is equivalent to 5,000-6,000 high-end laptops working in tandem. The new grid could be the first step in our desire to have a supercomputer machine in the top 20 list,” said Moona.

At present, India has two supercomputing machines in the world’s top 100, and nine in the top 500.

Source:- By 2016, India to have 10 new green supercomputers

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

Additional Note(s) >> National Supercomputing Mission to connect national academic and R&D institutions with a grid of over 70 high-performance computing facilities at an estimated cost of Rs 4,500 crore has been conceptualised and evolved keeping in view the ever increasing computing demand of the scientific and academic community in the country, international technology trends and roadmaps, strategic importance and emergence of supercomputing as a benchmark for scientific and technological advancements. It envisages empowering academic and R&D institutions spread over the country by installing a vast supercomputing grid comprising of more than 70 high-performance computing facilities.

>> The mission would be implemented by the Department of Science and Technology and Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) through Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.

>> These supercomputers will also be networked on the National Supercomputing grid over the National Knowledge Network (NKN). The NKN is another programme of the government which connects academic institutions and R&D labs over a high speed network.

Govt to launch Rs 4,500 cr National Supercomputing Mission

>> IISc kick started NSM werlier this month - IISc Launches NSM - Extension of Global Access to Resource Using Distributed Architecture (GARUDA)

>> Param Yuva II was made by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing in a period of three months, at a cost of ₹16 crore (US$2 million), and was unveiled on 8 February 2013. It performs at a peak of 524 teraflops and consumes 35% less energy as compared to Param Yuva. It delivers sustained performance of 360.8 teraflops on the community standard Linpack benchmark. It is the first Indian supercomputer achieving more than 500 teraflops.

>> Param Yuva II will be used for research in space, bioinformatics, weather forecasting, seismic data analysis, aeronautical engineering, scientific data processing and pharmaceutical development. Educational institutes like the Indian Institutes of Technology and National Institutes of Technology can be linked to the computer through the national knowledge network. This computer is a stepping stone towards building the future petaflop-range supercomputers in India.

>> PARAM Yuva-II was ranked #44 in Top 500 Fastest Supercomputers List and #9 in Top 500 Fastest Green Supercomputers List in March 2013.

Param Yuva II, country's pride, ranks 44th in world - The Times of India
India's Super Computer PARAM Yuva II ranks 9th in Green500 list | Business Standard News

Four new supercomputers were commissioned by India in the last three months -

>> HPC system named 'Bhaskara' was commissioned at the Earth System Science Organisation -- National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (ESSO-NCMRWF) for meteorological applications and research.
Supercomputer Bhaskara to give boost to weather forecasting - The Times of India

>> India's Fastest Supercomputer 'SahasraT' Launched at IISc - First PFlop/s HPC System (1.46 PFlop/s).
India's Fastest Supercomputer 'SahasraT' Launched at IISc - First PFlop/s HPC System (1.46 PFlop/s)

>> HPC System VIKRAM-100 at Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) - India's 13th Fastest -
13th fastest supercomputer in India inaugurated at PRL | The Indian Express

>> PARAM Bilim Supercomputer in Kazakhstan - India's Fifth Deployment on Foreign Soil -
India's C-DAC Deploys PARAM Bilim Supercomputer in Kazakhstan - Fifth Deployment on Foreign Soil

Though none of them were a part of NSM.

>> [UPDATE] The working of this super computer is based on the hybrid computer technology by making use of hardware accelerators and coprocessors. The interconnection of this fastest computer is comprised of Infiniband FDR System Area Network and PARAMNet-III which is sure to offer a remarkable efficiency. The storage capacity of the system is about 200 Terabytes which enables users to store a lot of data. Even parallel computing is made possible by the inclusion of required software.

>> Energy consumed by supercomputers is measured at various Levels - L1, L2, L3 - for purpose of reporting. As the level increases, accuracy and rigor of measurement exercise also increases. It is also a measure of our capability and noteworthy that C-DAC is the second organization worldwide to have carried out the Level 3 measurement of Power versus Performance for the Green500 List. PARAM Yuva II is rated as L3.

>> 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.

 

[Skull and Bones]

Awesome

 

[C130]

correct me if I am wrong but 4,500 crore=$833 million USD right??

to build 70 super computer facilities with that budget is insane.

 

[Styx]

correct me if I am wrong but 4,500 crore=$833 million USD right??

to build 70 super computer facilities with that budget is insane.

that cheap or too expensive ?

the mars orbiter was 70 million

 

[C130]

that cheap or too expensive ?

the mars orbiter was 70 million

too cheap. unless India is building it's own CPUs and GPUs to run in them.

modern high end super computer costs $50 to $100 million each


Titan cost $100 million to build and it's annual energy bill to run is $7 million as well.

 

[Echo_419]

correct me if I am wrong but 4,500 crore=$833 million USD right??

to build 70 super computer facilities with that budget is insane.

I think the amt is only for the 1st phase

 

[SP!TF!R3]

too cheap. unless India is building it's own CPUs and GPUs to run in them.

modern high end super computer costs $50 to $100 million each


Titan cost $100 million to build and it's annual energy bill to run is $7 million as well.

I think Indian Super Computers are relatively cheaper..Thats why India sold quite a few Supercomputers to various developing countries.

Indian government has approved a seven-year supercomputing program worth $730 million(and not $833 Million).

SahasraT,India's most powerful computer with 1.46 petaflops costs around $13 million.so,you can do the math.as report mentioned,only 3 will be with Petaflop capacity while others will be not.

 

[locker]

correct me if I am wrong but 4,500 crore=$833 million USD right??

to build 70 super computer facilities with that budget is insane.

India is also making
130 exascale supercomputer at the cost of 2.2 billion Dollar till 2020-21 alwhich will be among the 2 supercomputer which will be build till 2021 the other one will be from a pvt company from USA.
But the difference between both the computers will be the speed.
India will create 130 exascale sulercomputer but the pvt company will make mere 1 exascale supercomputer.

1 exasclae= 1000 petaflops.
The fastest supercomputer currently belongs to China with 54 petaflops.
So you can imagine what a feat India will achieve once done.

 

[K M Cariappa]

India is also making
130 exascale supercomputer at the cost of 2.2 billion Dollar till 2020-21 alwhich will be among the 2 supercomputer which will be build till 2021 the other one will be from a pvt company from USA.
But the difference between both the computers will be the speed.
India will create 130 exascale sulercomputer but the pvt company will make mere 1 exascale supercomputer.

1 exasclae= 1000 petaflops.
The fastest supercomputer currently belongs to China with 54 petaflops.
So you can imagine what a feat India will achieve once done.

Any source for this plan...?

 

[locker]

There is a thread on this news on defencepk itself search for it or search for it on Google.

Any source for this plan...?

 

[cloud_9]

correct me if I am wrong but 4,500 crore=$833 million USD right??

to build 70 super computer facilities with that budget is insane.

According to WIkipedia it costs $2 million/piece.

 

[C130]

India is also making
130 exascale supercomputer at the cost of 2.2 billion Dollar till 2020-21 alwhich will be among the 2 supercomputer which will be build till 2021 the other one will be from a pvt company from USA.
But the difference between both the computers will be the speed.
India will create 130 exascale sulercomputer but the pvt company will make mere 1 exascale supercomputer.

1 exasclae= 1000 petaflops.
The fastest supercomputer currently belongs to China with 54 petaflops.
So you can imagine what a feat India will achieve once done.

t

this seems like fantasy 130 exaflops in the next 6 or 7 years, lol I would be surprised if we hit 1 exaflop, at best 1 to 20 exaflops by 2022

 

[locker]

t

this seems like fantasy 130 exaflops in the next 6 or 7 years, lol I would be surprised if we hit 1 exaflop, at best 1 to 20 exaflops by 2022

As I told you there is already a news present on defencepk and on google. no need to laugh because USA is not the only country which is working on exasclaes first read it then laugh about it.
Actually you don't know to run a 130 exascale computer how much amount of electricity is required. So research about it.

 

[C130]

As I told you there is already a news present on defencepk and on google. no need to laugh because USA is not the only country which is working on exasclaes first read it then laugh about it.
Actually you don't know to run a 130 exascale computer how much amount of electricity is required. So research about it.

I laugh because 4 of the majors powers in supercomputing are just trying to reach 1 exa by 2020, but India is going to build one over 100 exa in the same time frame??

Why the U.S. may lose the race to exascale | Computerworld

if Japan 1 exa is going to consume around 30 megawatts of power than a 100 exa would be well over 30GW