National Supercomputing Mission

Quick facts 

• Purpose: Developing indigenous supercomputing ecosystem of the nation
• Inter-ministerial initiative: MeiTY and the Department of Science and Technology (DST) 
• Expected benefit: Accelerate R&D activities in multidisciplinary domains of science and engineering
• Implementing Agencies: Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.

Objective

 To build and deploy 24 facilities with cumulative compute power of more than 64 Petaflops

Salient features

Background Launched in 2015 and envisages empowering our national academic and R&D institutions by installing a vast supercomputing grid comprising of more than 70 high-performance computing (HPC) facilities.  These supercomputers will also be networked on the National Supercomputing grid over the National Knowledge Network (NKN).  The NKN is another programme of the government which connects academic institutions and R&D labs over a high speed network. Key pillar Server developed: C-DAC  has designed and developed a computer server "Rudra" and high-speed interconnect "Trinetra" which are the major sub-assemblies required for supercomputers. Large-scale applications being developed under NSM NSM Platform for Genomics and Drug Discovery. Urban Modelling: To Address Urban Environment Issues (Meteorology, Hydrology, Air Quality). Flood Early Warning and Prediction System for River Basins of India. HPC Software Suite for Seismic Imaging to aid Oil and Gas Exploration. MPPLAB: Telecom Network Optimization. About FLOPS (FLoating-point OPerations per Second): It is a common benchmark measurement for rating the speed of microprocessors.  A MegaFLOPS is equal to one million FLOPS.  A GigaFLOPS is equal to one billion FLOPS.  A TeraFLOPS is equal to one trillion FLOPS.  A PetaFLOPS can be measured as one thousand teraflops. First Indian supercomputer was PARAM 8000.