C-DAC, IIT Gandhinagar unveil Param Ananta, India’s latest supercomputer (2024)

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C-DAC, IIT Gandhinagar unveil Param Ananta, India’s latest supercomputer? ›

The Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and IIT Gandhinagar has presented 'Param Ananta,' India's newest supercomputer. This advancement is consistent with the National Supercomputing Mission's second phase (NSM). The maximum performance of the Param Ananta system is 838 teraflops.

Pune: The AI Supercomputer 'AIRAWAT', installed at C-DAC, Maharashtra's Pune has been ranked 75th in the world in the 61st edition of the 'Top 500 Global Supercomputing List' yesterday at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC 2023) in Germany, Ministry of Electronics & IT said on Wednesday.

The AI Supercomputer'AIRAWAT' and PARAM Siddhi – AI are currently the fastest supercomputers in India. AIRAWAT has been ranked 75th in the world as of June 2023.

The correct answer is IIT Gandhinagar. PARAM ANANTA, a state-of the art Supercomputer was commissioned on May 30, 2022, at IIT, Gandhinagar.

PARAM ANANTA, a state-of the art Supercomputer at IIT Gandhinagar dedicated to the nation under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) - a joint initiative of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and Department of Science and Technology (DST), was commissioned on May 30, 2022 by Smt.

As of December 2023, Frontier is the world's fastest supercomputer. It is based on the Cray EX and is the successor to Summit (OLCF-4). Frontier achieved an Rmax of 1.102 exaFLOPS, which is 1.102 quintillion floating-point operations per second, using AMD CPUs and GPUs.

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As of 2024, United States has the most supercomputers on the list, with 171 machines. The United States has the highest aggregate computational power at 3,652 Petaflops Rmax with Japan second (621 Pflop/s) and China third (292 Pflop/s).

What's New: At ISC High Performance 2024, Intel announced in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) that the Aurora supercomputer has broken the exascale barrier at 1.012 exaflops and is the fastest AI system in the world dedicated to AI for open science, achieving 10.6 AI ...

The cost of designing, building, and deploying a supercomputer can range from US$ 100 million to US$ 300 million. On average, these systems consume 6-7 megawatts of power, with peak consumption nearing 9.5 megawatts. The yearly energy cost for such usage is approximately US$ 6-US$ 7 million.

Which IIT has best supercomputer? ›

The upcoming nine new supercomputers will be installed at IIT-Bombay, IIT-Madras, IIT-Patna, IIT-Delhi, Inter-University Accelerator Centre (IUAC) Delhi, CDAC Pune, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) Pune, and National Informatics Centre (NIC) Delhi, it said.

Paramshakti is the name of the supercomputer hosted at IIT Kharagpur.

Established in 2008, IITGN is a “second generation” IIT. In a very short time it has developed a reputation for its innovative curriculum and vibrant academic culture.

A very good super computing facility is available at IITB. The facility ranks in top 500 in world and top 50 in Asia. In 1983 CAD center was set up at IITB which had Russian technology in those days. In 2003 Galaxy cluster High performance facility was set up in Aerospace dept.

Information Processing Centre caters to the computing needs of all students and staff and training requirements of several computer-oriented courses. It also houses a PARAM 10000 super computer.

PARAM is a series of Indian supercomputers designed and assembled by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in Pune.

The Met Office has signed a multimillion-pound agreement with Microsoft for the provision of a world-leading supercomputing capability that will take weather and climate forecasting to the next level and help the UK stay safe and thrive, announced today on Earth Day (22 April).

In the US, researchers are installing two machines that will be about twice as fast as Frontier: El Capitan, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, and Aurora, at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. Europe's first exascale supercomputer, Jupiter, is expected to come online in late 2024.

Pleiades (/ˈplaɪədiːz, ˈpliːə-/) is a petascale supercomputer housed at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at NASA's Ames Research Center located at Moffett Field near Mountain View, California.