India’s supercomputing prowess moved up several notches (on Jan 08, 2018) after it unveiled Pratyush, an array of computers that can deliver a
peak power of 6.8 petaflops. One petaflop is a million billion floating point
operations per second and is a reflection of the computing capacity of a
system.
According to a statement by the Indian Institute of
Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pratyush is the fourth fastest supercomputer in
the world dedicated for weather and climate research, and follows machines in
Japan, USA and the United Kingdom. It will also move an Indian supercomputer
from the 300s to the 30s in the Top500 list, a respected international tracker
of the world’s fastest supercomputers.
The machines will be installed at two government
institutes: 4.0 petaflops HPC facility at IITM, Pune; and 2.8 petaflops
facility at the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecast, Noida.
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