The debut of PARAM 8000, India's first supercomputer, astonished the world in 1991; nonetheless, the Indian government had already established its supercomputing goal by 2015. A supercomputer is a powerful computer used for technical and scientific tasks requiring extremely high computational capability. In the field of space science, they are also commonly utilised for climate monitoring. Supercomputers, in contrast to conventional computers, have several CPUs to effectively carry out logic functions.
The Top 5 Indian-Developed Supercomputers
We have collected a list of supercomputers developed in India because the country's supercomputing mission has increased the desire to produce the fastest supercomputer in India .
1.Param Siddhi-AI
An artificial intelligence-powered high-performance supercomputer in India is called PARAM Siddhi. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and the Center for Development of Advanced Computing worked together to build it as part of the National Supercomputing Mission. The world's 63rd-ranked Siddhi-AI supercomputer was developed in 2015 and is now India's fastest supercomputer. The Rpeak and Rmax values for PARAM Siddhi are 5.67 and 4.6 petaflops, respectively.
2.Pratyush
Pratyush, one of India's fastest supercomputers, was created by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) Pune in 2018. Under the guidance of Suryachandra Rao, the government approved a budget of Rs. 400 crores for the development of the new fastest supercomputer in India, with a computational capacity of 10 petaflops. The Cray XC40 liquid-cooled supercomputer has Intel Xeon Broadwell E5-2695 processors installed in each node. With a peak capability of 6.8 petaflops, it features a large 414 terabyte system memory. This supercomputer's main objective is to accurately predict monsoons and their intensity.
3.Mihir
Mihir is an Indian supercomputer that the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology built in 2018. The Indian supercomputer was also ranked 120th out of the top 500 supercomputers worldwide. Mihir is capable of 2.5 petaflops of processing power. Together, Pratyush and Mihir are used in weather forecasting operations. These two supercomputers can function at their top levels in a manner that is comparable to PARAM Siddhi-AI when combined.
4.SAHASRAT
This Cray XC40 supercomputer was constructed in India by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore. It has improved the already advanced commuting system at the Supercomputer Education and Research Center. An Intel Haswell 2.5 GHz CPU set with twelve cores, 128 GB of RAM, 2.1 PB of storage, an NVIDIA G40 4K graphic accelerator, and 1376 nodes make up this high-performance system. Among the top 500 supercomputers in the world, it has climbed to position 96. SAHASRAT is intended for use in both molecular science and aerospace engineering.
5.AADITYA
AADITYA, a supercomputer from IBM's iDataplex line, has been deployed at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) in Pune. The supercomputer is powered by Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs and includes 2384 compute nodes, 149 TB of RAM, an NVIDIA GF100GL graphics card, and 6 PB of storage. Each node of the AADITYA processor has 32 cores. The machine's processing is managed by IBM's General Parallel File system. In a previous ranking of the top 500 supercomputers, AADITYA was placed 116th. This supercomputer is used by IITM in India to predict rainfall in smaller areas. The institute conducts its meteorological studies there as well.
To sum up
Supercomputers produce a lot of heat and use a lot of electricity. To combat the heat, they must incorporate the appropriate cooling system, raising their cost and complicating maintenance. Universities and institutions ought to be prodded to create more power-efficient supercomputers. And the day we succeeded in building India's fastest, most energy-efficient supercomputer will go down in history as a moment to be cherished always.
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