India’s fastest super-computer!

India is soon going to have its fastest supercomputer as the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is all set to launch one at the data science institute of Bangalore. CSIR will re-position its Bangalore-based Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation (CMMACS) to handle data intensive scientific discovery.

The laboratories will have computing facilities between 10 and 50 Tera flop capacity and will be linked to the supercomputer using the National Knowledge Network. This will ultimately connect 200 scientists and over 1,000 students in the identified domain areas, which are earth system sciences, medical informatics, biomedical informatics, chemical sciences, and physical sciences.

Features of India's upcoming fastest supercomputer:

• The supercomputer will have a speed of 360 tera flops, making it the fastest machine in the country when operational
• The machine will be housed at CSIR Fourth Paradigm Institute (CSIR – 4PI)
• Forming the backbone of the new venture, the supercomputer will connect CSIR laboratories located in Delhi, Hyderabad, Pune, Srinagar, Chennai, Chandigarh, and Nagpur

To be set up by the end of July 2013, the institute is expected to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.