National Supercomputing Mission(NSM):
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The government launched the National Supercomputing Mission in 2015.
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Aim: To connect research and academic institutions to a Supercomputing grid all over the country. The grid consists of more than 70 high-performance computing facilities, It will increase the research capacities and capabilities in the country.
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These supercomputers will also be networked on the National Supercomputing grid over the National Knowledge Network (NKN). The NKN is another program of the government. NKN connects academic institutions and R&D labs over a high-speed network.
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Implementing Agency: Department of Science and Technology and Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) through the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.
Phases under the mission:
Phase 1:
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Under this phase, 30% of the value addition of Supercomputers is done in India.
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Param Shivay was the first supercomputer assembled indigenously, installed in IIT(BHU).
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Param Shakti and Param Brahma supercomputer installed at IIT-Kharagpur and IISER, Pune respectively.
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Thereafter, supercomputing facilities were set up in two more institutions and one more is being set up with a computing speed to 6.6 Petaflops (PF).
Phase II:
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Under this phase, 40% of the value addition of Supercomputers is done in India.
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8 institutions are being equipped with supercomputing facilities by April 2021 with a total of 10 PF compute capacity.
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MoUs have also been signed with a total of 14 premier institutions of India for establishing Supercomputing Infrastructure with Assembly and Manufacturing in India.
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This phase will complete by September 2021. After completion, it will take the country’s computing power to 16 Petaflops(PF).
Phase III:
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This phase will take the computing speed to around 45 Petaflops. This will include three systems of 3 PF each and one system of 20PF as a national facility.
Indigenous Development: India has developed an Indigenous server named Rudra which can meet the High-Performance Computing (HPC) requirements of all governments and PSUs.
About National Knowledge Network(NKN):
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National Knowledge Network(NKN) was established in 2010. Its objective is to interconnect all institutions of higher learning and research with a high-speed data communication network. It will be helpful to facilitate knowledge sharing and collaborative research.
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Implementation: National Informatics Centre (NIC), under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, is the implementing agency.