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Students, researchers and faculty couldn’t have it better. The Centre has approved a massive Rs 5,000-crore fund to set up supercomputers all over the country, including Bangalore, as part of the High Performance Computing Initiative (HPCI) drafted by the senior scientists.
The approval is in continuation of the supercomputing policy outlined by the
United Progressive Alliance (UPA-II) Government headed by then prime minister Manmohan Singh. It is also a continuation of the recommendations made by Prof C N R Rao in his 2013 Science in India report.
Prof N Balakrishnan, Associate Director of IISC and the chairman of the HPCI told Deccan Herald:
“The executive and finance committee of the Centre has approved Rs 5,000 crore fund for the HPCI. We will prepare a note soon for the Union Cabinet explaining the project and its benefits to the country. Under this initiative, we plan to set up supercomputers across 100 to 150 institutions nationwide. Scores of scientists are in the course of deciding the locations where the supercomputers would be installed. A three-tiered model as suggested in the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-2017) would be followed – small scale HPC systems will be located at local level institutions, medium scale systems at regional level and high scale systems at the national level. A three-tiered system will also be followed in terms of computing power each location will have.”
The supercomputers to be installed will be a combination of power – some will be in terraflops, while others would be in petaflops.
The HPCI chairman said 25 per cent of the scientific manpower, the top experts familiar with the systems, will have direct access to the computers, while others will have indirect access via a network – the National Knowledge Network (NKN) which will connect all the supercomputers.
The NKN is a state-of-the-art multi-gigabit pan-India network planned to provide a unified high speed network backbone for all knowledge-related institutions in the country. The NKN will enable scientists, researchers and students from different backgrounds and diverse geographies to work in critical and emerging areas. The idea behind indirect access Balakrsihnan said was not to leave out any section of students, researchers and faculty. A network system for this indirect access is under consideration.
Bangalore will continue to be the supercomputer capital of the country with seven systems. Pune is just behind with six systems, while Delhi has four, Mumbai and Chennai two each.
Rs 5,000-crore fund approved for supercomputers
The approval is in continuation of the supercomputing policy outlined by the
United Progressive Alliance (UPA-II) Government headed by then prime minister Manmohan Singh. It is also a continuation of the recommendations made by Prof C N R Rao in his 2013 Science in India report.
Prof N Balakrishnan, Associate Director of IISC and the chairman of the HPCI told Deccan Herald:
“The executive and finance committee of the Centre has approved Rs 5,000 crore fund for the HPCI. We will prepare a note soon for the Union Cabinet explaining the project and its benefits to the country. Under this initiative, we plan to set up supercomputers across 100 to 150 institutions nationwide. Scores of scientists are in the course of deciding the locations where the supercomputers would be installed. A three-tiered model as suggested in the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-2017) would be followed – small scale HPC systems will be located at local level institutions, medium scale systems at regional level and high scale systems at the national level. A three-tiered system will also be followed in terms of computing power each location will have.”
The supercomputers to be installed will be a combination of power – some will be in terraflops, while others would be in petaflops.
The HPCI chairman said 25 per cent of the scientific manpower, the top experts familiar with the systems, will have direct access to the computers, while others will have indirect access via a network – the National Knowledge Network (NKN) which will connect all the supercomputers.
The NKN is a state-of-the-art multi-gigabit pan-India network planned to provide a unified high speed network backbone for all knowledge-related institutions in the country. The NKN will enable scientists, researchers and students from different backgrounds and diverse geographies to work in critical and emerging areas. The idea behind indirect access Balakrsihnan said was not to leave out any section of students, researchers and faculty. A network system for this indirect access is under consideration.
Bangalore will continue to be the supercomputer capital of the country with seven systems. Pune is just behind with six systems, while Delhi has four, Mumbai and Chennai two each.
Rs 5,000-crore fund approved for supercomputers
