DAE unveils supercomputer

The home-built supercomputer, built at a cost of Rs 6 crore, is a major facility for scientists and researchers and one of the fastest in the country.

The induction of the machine “is a major event,” said AEC chairman Srikumar Banerjee.
India had years ago begun building such “parallel processors” through a network of institutes amid an “embargo against us”, Dr Banerjee said.

While the Tatas have done some strong work in this area, the supercomputers built by the DAE institutes were planned by the “users themselves” which was remarkable, he said.

The latest machine has been designed to be fast enough to “meet our application needs over the next five years,” he said. “We also wanted it to be versatile to meet diverse user needs, and energy efficiency was a high priority,” said Dr Menon.