{"id":32197,"date":"2018-10-29T13:02:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T07:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32197"},"modified":"2018-10-29T13:02:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T07:32:17","slug":"india-unveils-pratyush-its-fastest-supercomputer-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-unveils-pratyush-its-fastest-supercomputer-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"India unveils Pratyush, its fastest supercomputer yet\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/india-unveils-pratyush-its-fastest-supercomputer-yet\/article22398732.ece\"><strong>India unveils Pratyush, its fastest supercomputer yet<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s supercomputing prowess moved up several notches Monday after it unveiled Pratyush, an array of computers that 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4<sup>th<\/sup> fastest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to a statement by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pratyush is the fourth fastest supercomputer in the world dedicated for weather and climate research, and follows machines in Japan, USA and the United Kingdom<\/p>\n<p><strong>Into the 30s<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It will also move an Indian supercomputer from the 300s to the 30s in the Top500 list, a respected international tracker of the world\u2019s fastest supercomputers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Installation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The machines will be installed at two government institutes: 4.0 petaflops HPC facility at IITM, Pune; and 2.8 petaflops facility at the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecast, Noida.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Budget<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The government had sanctioned \u20b9400 crore last year to put in place a 10-petaflop machine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For monsoon forecasting<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A key function of the machine\u2019s computing power would be monsoon forecasting using a dynamical model<\/li>\n<li>This requires simulating the weather for a given month \u2014 say March \u2014 and letting a custom-built model calculate how the actual weather will play out over June, July, August and September.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India unveils Pratyush, its fastest supercomputer yet\u00a0 Context India\u2019s supercomputing prowess moved up several notches Monday after it unveiled Pratyush, an array of computers that 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.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-unveils-pratyush-its-fastest-supercomputer-yet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India unveils Pratyush, its fastest supercomputer yet\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704664686},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32197","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}