Why in News?

India is fast emerging as a leader in high power computing with the National Super Computing Mission (NSM) boosting it to meet the increased computational demands.

About NSM:

• The National Supercomputing Mission was announced in 2015 to connect national academic and R&D institutions with a grid of more than 70 high-performance computing facilities.
• It was to be completed in the period of seven years.
• It is in sync with the government’s vision of Digital India and Make in India initiatives.
• Under Ministry of Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology,
• Implementation Agency: Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune and IISC, Bengaluru.
• NSM also envisions to to build a strong base of 20,000 skilled personnel to handle the complexities of supercomputers.

About Supercomputers:

• It is a computer with a high level of performance compared to a general-purpose computer.
• Its performance is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS).
• Presently, there are supercomputers which can perform over a hundred quadrillion FLOPS i.e., petaFLOPS.

Usage of Super Computers:

• Simulate Real Life Conditions in solving problems like fuel efficiency, environment friendliness, etc.
• Disaster Management: Weather Forecast,

Predict storms, plan mitigation activities etc.

• Used in Financial Services, Manufacturing and internet companies and infrastructure systems field.
• Future applications of Artificial intelligence depend on Supercomputer.
• Any operation where big data analytics is required can be handled by Supercomputer.
• PARAM Siddhi – AI, the high-performance computing-AI supercomputer of India, has achieved global ranking of 63 in TOP 500 most powerful supercomputer systems in the world.