{"id":245446,"date":"2023-05-30T20:07:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T14:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=245446"},"modified":"2023-05-30T20:07:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T14:37:56","slug":"faster-stronger-on-supercomputers-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/faster-stronger-on-supercomputers-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Faster, stronger \u2013 on supercomputers in India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong>This post is created based on the article <strong>\u201cFaster, stronger\u201d,<\/strong> published in <strong>The Hindu<\/strong> on 30<sup>th<\/sup> May 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus Topic: <\/strong>GS paper 3 &#8211; indigenization of technology and developing new technology<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contex<\/strong>t:\u00a0 India is set to receive a new high-performance computing (HPC) system, often referred to as a &#8216;supercomputer&#8217;, from the French corporation, Atos. This system is expected to be the fastest in India.<\/p>\n<p>The HPC will be part of deal with France, signed in December 2018 to procure high-performance computers worth \u20b94,500 crore by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The HPC systems will be hosted by two institutions: the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, and the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, Noida. These institutions currently house two of India&#8217;s most powerful machines, Mihir and Pratyush.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>How HPCs are being used and what are their potential uses?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>While the possession of powerful supercomputers provides Indian scientists the tools to tackle complex problems, it&#8217;s unclear whether these machines have led to significant breakthroughs in fundamental science or engineered commercial products.<\/p>\n<p>The use of such machines has improved short-term weather forecasts and cyclone predictions in India. But there should be greater evaluation of their value in other fields, beyond their speed and power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: This post is created based on the article \u201cFaster, stronger\u201d, published in The Hindu on 30th May 2023. Syllabus Topic: GS paper 3 &#8211; indigenization of technology and developing new technology Context:\u00a0 India is set to receive a new high-performance computing (HPC) system, often referred to as a &#8216;supercomputer&#8217;, from the French corporation, Atos.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/faster-stronger-on-supercomputers-in-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Faster, stronger \u2013 on supercomputers in India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10498],"class_list":["post-245446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}