India has produced just three supercomputers since 2015 under NSM
PARAM Shivay installed in IIT-BHU, Varanasi with 837 TeraFlop capacity
Second one at IIT-Kharagpur with 1.66 PetaFlop capacity
PARAM Brahma at ISER-Pune, has a capacity of 797 TeraFlop
NSM envisaged setting up a network of 70 high-performance computing facilities with an aim to connect national academic and R&D institutions across India over a seven-year period at an estimated cost of Rs 4500 Crores.
Parent Body:Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) and Department of Science and Technology (DST).
Nodal Agencies of NSM– Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune, and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.
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Just 16.67% of the total budget of Rs 4,500 crore, was disbursed during the last four-and-a-half years to two nodal agencies of NSM
Globally, China continues to lead the supercomputer race. It added eight more supercomputers in the last six months taking its existing numbers to 227.
