Supercomputer

SoftBank plans first supercomputer with Nvidia's Blackwell design chips

Nvidia's chips have become a prized commodity for the world's biggest tech companies, which use the components to develop and run AI models

India's needs more supercomputers: For scientific research to industries

Computing power is as vital to the economy as highways and factories. The technology has to be affordable and accessible for private firms and the government

PM Modi launches 3 Param Rudra supercomputers: Features explained

PM Modi launched 3 Param Rudra Super Computing Systems and an HPC system for weather research today. The supercomputers have been indigenously built under the National Supercomputing Mission

PM Modi unveils 3 India-made Param Rudra supercomputers: Here's what you need to know

PM Modi to launch Rs 22,600 cr projects; 3 supercomputers, metros: Details

On Thursday, PM Modi will dedicate multiple projects including the expansion of the Pune metro rail network, three supercomputers as well as energy sector projects

Microsoft backed G42 to build India's largest supercomputer with 8 exaflop

Microsoft and Mubadala-backed G42 will build India's largest supercomputer with eight exaflops, which can perform millions of trillion floating-point operations per second, a senior company official said on Tuesday. G42 India CEO Manu Jain told PTI that the company also unveiled a beta version of Hindi language large language model -- an artificial intelligence engine, with which users can converse in Hindi, English and Hinglish (mix of Hindi and English) language. He said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had visited Abu Dhabi earlier this year and a memorandum of understanding on digital infrastructure was signed between India and the UAE. "We are the chosen implementation partner to execute this MoU. The MoU had spoken about three things - setting up a very large 2 gigawatt data centre in India. This can double the existing capacity of data centres in India. The second is building one of India's largest supercomputers up to 8 exaflops which we (G42) are building with Cerebras, an

Elon Musk plans xAI supercomputer to power next version of chatbot Grok

Musk said he wants to get the proposed supercomputer running by the fall of 2025, as per the report, adding that xAI could partner with Oracle to develop the massive computer

Kiren Rijiju upset over delay in supercomputer delivery by French firm

Earth Sciences Minister Kiren Rijiju is upset over the delay in the delivery of two supercomputers by a French firm to Indian weather forecasting institutes and hopes that the French government will step in to hasten the process. The Earth Sciences Ministry had ordered two supercomputers worth USD 100 million from French firm Eviden, of the Atos Group, last year to better the computing capabilities of its institutions -- the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF) and the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM). "I am more upset because the target we set was December. The Union Cabinet had already approved purchasing the supercomputer. We have only four petaflop capacity. We want to install up to 18 petaflop capacity," Rijiju told PTI in a video interview. He said the French company ran into some financial trouble and wanted the government to make payment to its subsidiary. Rijiju said the delay has caused him lots of worry as the company has overshot

Avalon Technologies joins MeitY's RUDRA supercomputing mission

The partnership will add to the indigenous manufacturing capability of High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems that are a part of the 'RUDRA' programme, said the company in an announcement

India to spruce up cyclone forecasting with new supercomputers, radars

A unit of computing power, the petaflop refers to a thousand trillion operations a second

India to have new supercomputer for weather forecasting by year end: Rijiju

India will unveil its new 18 petaflop supercomputer for weather forecasting institutes later this year, Union Earth Sciences Minister Kiren Rijiju said on Wednesday. Rijiju made the announcement after a visit to the ministry's National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF) in Noida near here. The NCMRWF houses 'Mihir', a 2.8 petaflop supercomputer, while the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, is home to 'Pratyush', a 4.0 petaflop supercomputer. "The new supercomputer will be bought at a cost of Rs 900 crore," Rijiju told reporters at NCMRWF. According to the arrangement arrived at by the ministry, NCMRWF will be allocated eight petaflop supercomputing power with the remaining 10 petaflops going to IITM. The Pune-based institute requires higher supercomputing power as it deals with seasonal weather forecasts while the NCMRWF deals with medium-range forecasts for a period extending three to seven days in advance. The new high-power computing facil

Nvidia, Microsoft team up to build one of most powerful AI supercomputers

'AI technology advances as well as industry adoption are accelerating', said Manuvir Das

Meta says new AI supercomputer to be world's fastest by mid-2022

According to the company, developing the next generation of AI will require supercomputers capable of "quintillions of operations per second"

South Korea aims to develop exascale supercomputer system by 2030

South Korea will beef up its high-performance computing infrastructure to establish an exascale supercomputing system by 2030, the country's science ministry has said

Param Siddhi bags 63rd rank among 500 powerful supercomputers in world: DST

Param Siddhi, the supercomputer established under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), has achieved 63rd rank in the list of 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world, the Department of Science and Technology (DST) said on Tuesday. It is a historic first. India has one of the largest supercomputer infrastructures in the world and that is evidenced by the ranking that Param Siddhi-AI has received, said DST secretary Ashutosh Sharma. I truly believe that Param Siddhi-AI will go a long way in empowering our national academic and R&D institutions as well as industries and start-ups spread over the country networked on the national supercomputer grid over the National Knowledge Network (NKN), Sharma added. The AI system will strengthen application development of packages in areas such as advanced materials, computational chemistry and astrophysics, and several packages being developed under the mission on platform for drug design and preventive health care system, flood ...

The quantum supremacy

The new result will accelerate investment in research

India's CDAC, France's Atos sign Rs 4.5-bn deal for supercomputer network

India's Centre for Development of Advanced Computing and France's IT services company Atos Saturday signed a three-year industrial contract for designing, building and installing the BullSequana, its high-performance supercomputers, in the country. The signing ceremony took place in the presence of Jean Yves Le Drian, French minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs and Ajay Prakash Sawhney, secretary - Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. It was signed between Hemant Darbari, Director General of C-DAC, and Pierre Barnab, chief operating officer - Big Data & Security at Atos. Speaking at the ceremony, Jean said the agreement will deepen our bilateral ties. "India and France have a strategic partnership and we are two nations that innovate a lot. It is true that supercomputers are a necessity and not a luxury. We often say that data for the 21st century is what oil was to the 20th century, we are using data in a massive way and that raises questions of ethics. India and

US unveils world's most powerful scientific supercomputer 'Summit'

The US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL) supercomputer will be eight times more powerful than its previous top-ranked system, Titan

US supercomputer leaves China behind with 1,000 trillion calculation a sec

Summit does 200 quadrillion calculations a second compared to 93 quadrillion by Chinese one; 1 quadrillion = 1,000 trillion

New Chinese system named world's top supercomputer

Sunway TaihuLight is twice as fast and three times as efficient as Tianhe-2