New Make-In-India Indigenous Supercomputer to Be Built Next Year

Starting August 2017, India will be making new indigenous supercomputers.

India will be getting new supercomputers, starting August 2017, as part of the government’s Rs 4,500-crore programme.

The government had in March last year approved the plan of the National Supercomputing Mission, which proposes the building of 80 supercomputers in the next seven years, of which some would be imported and some would be built in India itself.

This could usher India into a group of nations that have made progress in the field. Presently, countries like US, Japan, China and the European Union are the major contributors towards supercomputers.

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing is handling the project.

We are working on how to control heat. The cost of power to run these supercomputers alone will be around Rs 1,000 crore.

Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary, Ministry of Science and Technology

The supercomputers would be placed across different institutions in the country, and they can be used for a variety of purposes like climate modelling, weather forecast and discoveries of drugs among others.

(With agency inputs).