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July 27, 2005
India interconnects home grown supercomputer
In September of this year, India's parallel supercomputer which can carry out a trillion operations per second, Param Padma would be connected to 16 cities including Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, and Thiruvananthapuram.
Bio-informatics, climatic calculations and sesmic data processing and analysis are set to get a boost from research conducted by India's various science institutes which can now access the processing power of India's most powerful supercomputer.
Built during 2003, Param Padma is a cluster of 62 4-way, IBM pSeries P630 nodes, interconnected through a high performance System Area Network called the PARAMNet-II. Designed and developed by Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). The cluster has 496 GB of aggregate Memory and 5 TB of internal storage.
India began developing a supercomputer after being denied a Cray supercomputer by the United States in 1987.
Posted by admin at July 27, 2005 04:11 AM