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25 May, 2020
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Pratyush is an array of computers recently unveiled in India. It can deliver a peak power of 6.8 petaflops. One petaflop is a million billion floating point operations per second and is a reflection of the computing capacity of a system.
The machines will be installed at two government institutes: the 4.0 petaflops HPC facility at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune & 2.8 petaflops facility at the National Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast, Noida. Pratyush is also the fourth fastest supercomputer in the world dedicated to weather and climate research.
A key function of the machine’s computing power would be monsoon forecasting using a dynamic model. With the new system, it would be possible to map regions in India at a resolution of 3 km and the globe at 12 km.
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