A government official said that India will get a new and indigenously built supercomputer in the coming year. This project which is being handled by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, the same one, that built India’s first supercomputer Param, is actually a part of government’s 4,500-crore programme. The aim of this programme was to take India into that elite group of countries which have made similar type of advancements in the field of technology.
Last year in March the government had approved the plan of the National Supercomputing Mission. In this mission they had planned that in the next seven years they will build 80 super computers. Mr. Ashutosh Sharma who is the Secretary of the Ministry of Science and Technology, said that some of them will be imported and the rest will be built indigenously. He also said that we are working on how to control heat. The cost of power to run these supercomputers alone will be around INR 1,000 crore.
At present we find countries like US, Japan, China and the European Union has a major share of the top supercomputing machines in the world. He also said that these super computers can be used for various purposes like climate modeling, weather forecast, discoveries of drugs etc. He added that that these super computers would be installed in different institutes all over the country.
