India’s newest and fastest supercomputer, PARAM-Siddhi AI, has been ranked 63rd in the Top500 list of most powerful supercomputers in the world.
Q. What is this Param Siddhi ?
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It is a high-performance computing-artificial intelligence (HPC-AI) supercomputer established under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) at C-DAC.
It was commissioned by the C-DAC earlier and has been developed in association with chipmaker Nvidia and French IT consulting firm Atos.
It will help deep learning, visual computing, virtual reality, accelerated computing, as well as graphics virtualization.
The computer is expected to be used as a platform for academia, scientific research, startups and more.
Q. What are Other Indian supercomputers ?
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PARAM-Siddhi is the second Indian supercomputer to be entered in the top 100 on the Top500 list.
Pratyush, a supercomputer used for weather forecasting at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, ranked 78th on the November edition of the list.
It was ranked 66th in the June rankings announced by the project.
Another Indian supercomputer, Mihir (146th on the list), clubs with Pratyush to generate enough computing power to match PARAM-Siddhi.
Q. Who topped the rankings?
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The Top500 project tracks the most powerful supercomputers in the world and is published twice a year.
Japanese supercomputer Fugaku (442 petaflops) and IBM’s Summit (148.8 petaflops) are the two most powerful supercomputers in the world, according to the list.
Chinese Sunway TaihuLight is number four on the list (93 petaflops), developed by the National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering & Technology (NRCPC) in China.
