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02 April, 2020
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National Supercomputing Mission
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India has produced just three supercomputers since 2015 under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).
National Supercomputing Mission
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India’s Super computers - Bhabha Atomic Research Centre ANUPAM-AGANYA - Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune PARAM Yuva - CSIR Fourth Paradigm Institute, Bangalore Cluster Platform - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore SahasraT - Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi Param Shivay - Indian Institute of Technology Delhi PADUM - Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati PARAM ISHAN - Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur HPC 2013 - Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai VIRGO Cluster - Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune Aaditya - Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad VIKRAM-100 - Tata Consultancy Services, Pune EKA - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai Cray XC30 - Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation SAGA Recent: Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology Pratyush (Cray XC40) National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting Mihir (Cray XC40) |
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