The first phase of supercomputers under India’s National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) will be built jointly by French IT firm Atos and Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC).A three-year contract has been signed by the former, giving a headstart to India’s grand plan of forming a cluster of machines for weather forecasting, drug discovery and data mining.
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The tender to build these set of high-performance computers had been floated by the CDAC in February, with a mission to propel India higher in the global supercomputer rankings. Atos would be now deploying its energy-efficient Direct Liquid Cooled BullSequana supercomputers in India.
The signing ceremony took place earlier this week, in the presence of Jean Yves Le Drian, French minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs and Ajay Prakash Sawhney, Secretary – Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
The contract is divided into three phases running simultaneously and is aimed at creating a network of over 70 high-performance supercomputing facilities for various academic and research institutions across India by 2022.
As per reports, Mahesh Kulkarni, programme co-ordinator at CDAC has said that one system will be installed at C-DAC exclusively for small and medium enterprises so that they can train employees as well as work on supercomputers at very low cost.
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Supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. Its performance is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instructions per second (MIPS). Supercomputers are used for a wide range of computationally intensive tasks in various fields, including quantum mechanics, weather forecasting, climate research, oil and gas exploration, molecular modelling and physical simulation. More Info
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