Two supercomputers from India in the TOP500 list, one in top 100

Two supercomputers from India, PARAM Siddhi-AI and Mihir, have made it to the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.

Context

• Two supercomputers from India, PARAM Siddhi-AI and Mihir, have made it to the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.

Key highlights

• The two systems have been ranked 63rd and 146th, respectively.
• Japan’s Fugaku, which has additional hardware of 442 Petaflops and was ranked first.
• In the 56th list, Japan, the USA, Germany, Italy, and France dominated the first 100 systems.

What are Supercomputers?

• A supercomputeris a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instructions per second (MIPS).

Some of the supercomputers of India

PARAM Siddhi-AI

• PARAM Siddhi-AI has aRpeak capacity of 5.267 Petaflops and Rmax capacity of 4.6 Petaflops.
• It was led and built on NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD architecture.
• The system is jointly built by the Department of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Electronics and IT.

Mihir

• ‘Mihir’ is a 2.8 Petaflop supercomputer.
• It is one of the powerful systems owned by the Ministry of Earth Sciences and has helped improve India’s forecasting skills.

Pratyush

• It is the first multi-PetaFlopssupercomputer ever built in India with 4 Petaflopcapacity.