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The world’s most powerful supercomputer Fugaku is fully developed in Japan. This marks the end of a seven-years long development procedure for Fugaku, which started developing in 2014 in collaboration with Fujitsu.
About Fugaku
- The computer has 100 times the application performance of the K supercomputer and is developed to implement high-resolution, long-duration and large-scale simulations.
- Fugaku has topped the Top500 list, a supercomputer benchmark index, for two consecutive years.
- A portion of Fugaku’s research is said to be dedicated to COVID-19 related projects.
- It aims to make the device core of Japan’s computing infrastructure.
- It will help in building a long-lived and healthy society.
Supercomputer
- The supercomputer is a computer with a high-level computational capacity compared to a general-purpose computer.
- The performance of a supercomputer is measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instructions per second (MIPS).
- They are expensive and are employed for specialized applications that require immense amounts of mathematical calculations (number crunching).
- For example, weather forecasting requires a supercomputer.
- Other uses of supercomputers scientific simulations, (animated) graphics, fluid dynamic calculations, nuclear energy research, electronic design, and analysis of geological data (e.g. in petrochemical prospecting).
- Japanese supercomputer Fugaku (442 petaflops) and IBM’s Summit (148.8 petaflops) are the two most powerful supercomputers in the world.
Supercomputer in India
- Mihir: Mihir (146th on the list), clubs with Pratyush to generate enough computing power to match PARAM-Siddhi.
- PARAM-Siddhi: It is the second Indian supercomputer to be entered in the top 100 on the Top500 list.
- The supercomputer was established earlier this year, under the National Supercomputer Mission (NSM) and is going to be installed in the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing’s (C-DAC) unit.
- Pratyush: It is a supercomputer used for weather forecasting at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, ranked 78th on the November edition of the list.
Application of Supercomputing
- Weather Forecasting
- Scientific Research
- Data Mining
Challenges of Supercomputing in India
- Lack of Research & Development in India.
- Lack of Funding.
- Limited manufacturing of electronics used in Supercomputing missions.
National Supercomputing Mission (NSM)
About C-DAC
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