Supercomputing in India

Picture of PARAM Yuva.
PARAM Yuva

India's supercomputer program was started in late 1980s because Cray supercomputers were denied for import due to an arms embargo imposed on India, as it was a dual use technology and could be used for developing nuclear weapons.[1][2]

PARAM 8000 is considered India's first supercomputer. It was indigenously built in 1991 by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing and was replicated and installed at ICAD Moscow in 1991 under Russian collaboration.[3][4]

INDIA's Rank in Top500

As of July 2016, India has 9 systems on the Top500 list ranking 110, 139, 186, 217, 337, 397, 414, 435 and 439. .[5]

Rank Site Name Rmax
(TFlop/s) 		Rpeak
(TFlop/s)
110 Indian Institute of Science SahasraT (SERC - Cray XC40) 901.5 1244.2
139 Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology Aaditya (iDataPlex DX360M4) 719.2 790.7
186 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research TIFR - Cray XC30 558.8 730.7
217 Indian Institute of Technology Delhi HP Apollo 6000 Xl230/250 524.4 1,170.1
337 Centre for Development of Advanced Computing PARAM Yuva - II 388.4 520.4
397 Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Cluster Platform SL230s Gen8 344.3 359.6
414 CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c Gen8 334.4 362.1
435 National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting iDataPlex DX360M4 318.4 350.1
439 IT Services Provider Cluster Platform SL250s Gen8 316.8 373.2
Old Comparison (November 2013)[6]
Country Total Rmax
(Gflops)		 Number of
computers
in TOP500		 System Share (%)
India 3,040,297 12 2.4
China 48,549,093 63 12.6
France 9,489,912 22 4.4
Germany 13,696,834 20 4
Japan 22,472,218 28 5.6
Russia 1,846,613 5 1
Poland 455,909 2 0.4
South Korea 1,258,060 5 1
UK 9,058,329 23 4.6
USA 118,261,596 264 52.8
Canada 2,077,842 10 2
Italy 2,665,609 5 1
Australia 2,180,151 5 1

Supercomputers

Aaditya

Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, has a machine with a theoretical peak of 790.7 teraflop/s, called Aaditya, which is used for climate research and operational forecasting. It ranked 96th among the world's top 500 supercomputers June 2013 list.[7]

Anupam

Anupam is a series of supercomputers designed and developed by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) for their internal use. It is mainly used for molecular dynamical simulations, reactor physics, theoretical physics, computational chemistry, computational fluid dynamics, and finite element analysis. The latest in the series is Anupam-Aagra clocked at 150 TFLOPS.[8]

PARAM Yuva II

Unveiled on 8 February 2013, this supercomputer was made by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing in a period of three months, at a cost of ₹160 million (US$2 million). It performs at a peak of 524 TFLOPS, about 10 times faster than the present facility, and will consume 35% less energy as compared to the existing facility. According to CDAC, the supercomputer can deliver sustained performance of 360.8 TFLOPS on the community standard Linpack benchmark, and would have been ranked 62 in the November 2012 ranking list of Top500. In terms of power efficiency, it would have been ranked 33rd in the November 2012 List of Top Green 500 supercomputers of the world.[9][10] It is the first Indian supercomputer achieving more than 500 teraflops.[11][12]

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.[11][12][13]

SAGA

SAGA built by ISRO, is capable of performing at 450,000 gigaflop/s (450 teraflop/s). It uses about 400 NVIDIA Tesla C2070 GPUs and 300 NVIDIA Tesla M2090 GPUs for acceleration and 400 Intel Intel QuadCore Xeon CPUs and 330 Intel Intel HexCore Xeon CPUs for proceesing. Storage Capacity is 120 TeraBytes. [14]

EKA

EKA is a supercomputer built by the Computational Research Laboratories with hardware provided by Hewlett-Packard.This is developed by Tata sons. It is capable of performing at 132800 gigaflop/s or 132 teraflop/s.

VIRGO

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras has a 91.1 teraflop/s machine called Virgo. It is ranked as 364 in the Top 500 November-2012 list. It has 292 computer nodes, 2 master nodes, 4 storage nodes and has total computing power 97 TFlops. According to Linpack Performance, Virgo is the fastest cluster in an academic institution in India. In terms of performance, it has an Expand (Rmax) of 91.126 TF and Expand (RPeak) of 97.843 TF. The computing efficiency is 932 Expand (MFlop/Watt). As of 2012, Virgo is at 224th position in the world (Top500), 5th ranked energy efficient machine in the world and 1st ranked energy efficient machine in India.

Vikram-100

Inaugurated on 26 June 2015, by Prof. U. R. Rao at the Physical Research Laboratory,[15] the Vikram-100 is a High Performance Computing (HPC) Cluster (named after eminent scientist Dr Vikram Sarabhai) with more than 100 teraflops of sustained performance. Vikram-100[16] has 97 compute nodes, each with two Intel Xeon E5-2670v3 12-core Intel Haswell CPUs at 2.30 GHz (for a total of 2,328 CPU cores), 256 GB RAM and 500 GB of local scratch storage. 20 of these nodes also have two Nvidia Tesla K40 GPU cards (for a total of 1,15,200 GPU Cores) each card capable of 1.66 Tflops (double precision).

Currently, the Vikram-100 HPC is 13th fastest supercomputer in India.[17]

PARAM Yuva

PARAM Yuva belongs to the PARAM series of supercomputer developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing. It is capable of performing at about 54000 gigaflop/s or 54 teraflop/s.

Cray XC40

SERC IISc has procured the super computer XC40 from Cray Inc. It was up for trials up to 25 January 2015. This has not yet come up on the super computers list yet and it would be up on the next listing due in June 2015.

Future supercomputers

The Indian Government has proposed to commit 2.5 billion USD to supercomputing research during the 12th five-year plan period (2012-2017). The project will be handled by Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.[18][19] Additionally, it was later revealed that India plans to develop a supercomputer with processing power in the exaflop range.[20] It will be developed by C-DAC within the subsequent 5 years of approval.[21]

The Supercomputer project has the backing of the Indian Government, which has set aside approximately $2 bn for its development, apart from support to the other major initiative of building and installing 100-150 supercomputers at the local, district and national levels under an Indian national programme.[22]

In March 2015, the Indian government has approved a seven-year supercomputing program worth $730 million (Rs. 4,500-crore). The National Supercomputing grid will consist of 73 geographically-distributed high-performance computing centers linked over a high-speed network. The mission involves both capacity and capability machines and includes standing up three petascale supercomputers.[23][24]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "India orders review of US supercomputer deal". Indian Express. Press Trust of India. 25 March 2000. India started supercomputer development in the early eighties after it was denied the technology by the US.
  2. ↑ Beary, Habib (1 April 2003). "India unveils huge supercomputer". BBC News. India began developing supercomputers in the late 1980s after being refused one by the US.
  3. ↑ "C-DAC furthering ties with ICAD, Moscow: From PARAM 8000 to PARAM 10000". Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). Retrieved 15 September 2011.
  4. ↑ "Supercomputer being developed at Pune, Bangalore will be ready in 6 months". Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). Retrieved 15 September 2011. ...giving India her first indigenous supercomputer in 1991 (PARAM 8000)
  5. ↑ "Top500 List -June 2016". Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  6. ↑ http://www.top500.org/statistics/list/
  7. ↑ "Top Supercomputers in India (Dec 2012)". Indian Institute of Science (IISC). Retrieved 11 February 2013.
  8. ↑ Basu, Sekhar. 65th Republic Day of India - BARC (PDF). p. www.barc.gov.in/presentations/20140126.pdf. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  9. ↑ "C-DAC launches India's fastest supercomputer; becomes first R&D institution in India to cross 500 teraflops milestone". Information Week. 9 February 2013. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
  10. ↑ "C-DAC reaffirms India's position on supercomputing map with PARAM Yuva - II". CDAC. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
  11. 1 2 "C-DAC unveils India's fastest supercomputer". The Times of India. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
  12. 1 2 "India's fastest supercomputer 'Param Yuva II' unveiled". DNA India. 8 February 2013. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
  13. ↑ "C-DAC unveils India's fastest supercomputer Param Yuva II". The Economic Times. 9 February 2013. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
  14. ↑ "ISRO builds India's fastest supercomputer". The Economics Times. 2 May 2011.
  15. ↑ "13th fastest supercomputer in India inaugurated at PRL". The Indian Express. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
  16. ↑ "Vikram-100 HPC Cluster". Physical Research Laboratory. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
  17. ↑ "Top Supercomputers in India (Jun 2015)". Indian Institute of Science (IISC). Retrieved 11 June 2015.
  18. ↑ "Making up lost ground: India pitches for $1bn leap in supercomputers". Daily Mail. 23 January 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
  19. ↑ "India Aims to Double R&D Spending for Science". HPC Wire. 4 January 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
  20. ↑ C-DAC and Supercomputers in India
  21. ↑ "India plans 61 times faster supercomputer by 2017". Times of India. 27 September 2012. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
  22. ↑ Prashanth G N– Nov 13, 2014. "India working on building fastest supercomputer". Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  23. ↑ "India Greenlights $730 Million Supercomputing Grid". HPC Wire. 26 March 2015.
  24. ↑ "Govt to install 73 supercomputers across the country". Zee News. 25 March 2015.
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