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India has entered the
league of a handful of countries that have a teraflop
supercomputing capability, with the completion of development
work on the supercomputer PARAM Padma.
It is expected to be
launched at a formal ceremony in the next few months
at Bangalore.
Developed by the Centre
for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC),
it has incurred an investment of Rs.50 crore, of which
Rs. 40 crore is in the form of grants from the government.
The teraflop supercomputer
is ten times more powerful than the PARAM
10000, which is India's first indigenously developed
supercomputer.
As the PARAM Padma
can perform one trillion operations in one second, it
is useful in industries like Bioinformatics,
Meteorology, Oil Exploration and corporations that manage
and work on large amounts of data.
"There are only
two other countries - Japan and the United States -
that have the technical capability of making a teraflop
supercomputer. With the PARAM Padma we will join them,"
says Shri.
R.K. Arora, Executive Director of C-DAC.
There are about 100
teraflops supercomputers in the world.
The teraflop computers
will facilitate research and development works in the
country especially in the area of stem cell research,
Shri. Arora added.
This supercomputer
leverages on two new technologies developed by the centre.
One enhances the speed
of the data and the second improves the efficiency of
the system to run the application.
The government has
been working on the development of a teraflop computer,
which has higher speeds and better latencies than the
earlier version, for the past two years.
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