India’s fastest supercomputer with “multi-petaflops” was dedicated to nation on Monday in Pune
India’s fastest supercomputer with “multi-petaflops” was dedicated to the nation on Monday in Pune. Union minister for science and technology Harsh Vardhan inaugurated the powerful computer. Petaflops is a measure of a computer’s processing speed. Flops stand for floating point operations per second, which is a measure of computer performance, useful when floating-point calculations are required.
It has been christened “Pratyush”, which means the sun. The supercomputer has been installed at the High-Performance Computing (HPC) facility at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune. An IITM release that the institute will be a national facility for improving weather and climate forecasts.
The IITM release further said that the super-computer will help the institute to make more accurate forecasts about rains, monsoons, cyclones, lightning, fishing, high tides, floods, and droughts.
The minister said it would be India’s number one HPC facility.
It has been christened “Pratyush”, which means the sun. The supercomputer has been installed at the High-Performance Computing (HPC) facility at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune. An IITM release that the institute will be a national facility for improving weather and climate forecasts.
The IITM release further said that the super-computer will help the institute to make more accurate forecasts about rains, monsoons, cyclones, lightning, fishing, high tides, floods, and droughts.
The minister said it would be India’s number one HPC facility.