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    Important facts about National Supercomputing Mission (NSM)

    • Posted by Vizmins Official Post
    • Date January 24, 2022
    General Studies paper 3 Technology

    National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) - Visual Cards

    National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) - January 2022 by Visual Minds

    Index

    • In NEWS

    • About NSM

    • Focus of mission

    • Achievements

    National Supercomputing Mission (NSM)

    In News:

    • As per the ministry of science and technology’s annual year-end review:

    • Under the National Super-Computer Mission (NSM), four new Supercomputers have been installed since July 2021 at

      • IIT-Hyderabad,

      • NABI- Mohali,

      • CDAC-Bengaluru

      • IIT Kanpur.

    • NSM provides access to High-Performance Computing (HPC) facilities to around 75 institutions and more than thousands of active researchers, academicians working through Nation Knowledge Network (NKN).

       

    About National Supercomputing Mission (NSM)

    • It is being steered jointly by the
      • Department of Science and Technology (DST)
      • Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY).
    • Implemented by the
      • Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune
      • Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.

    The focus of the mission

    • The Mission envisages empowering national academic and R&D institutions spread over the country
    • By installing a vast supercomputing grid comprising of more than 70 high-performance computing facilities.
    • 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 which connects academic institutions and R&D labs over a high-speed network.
    • The Mission includes the development of highly professional High-Performance Computing (HPC) aware human resource for meeting challenges of the development of these applications.

    Achievements under NSM

    • The first supercomputer assembled indigenously, called Param Shivay, was installed in IIT (BHU).
    • Param Shakti and Param Brahma were installed at IIT-Kharagpur and IISER, Pune.
    • They are equipped with applications from domains like Weather and Climate, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Bioinformatics, and Material science.
    • India has developed an indigenous server (Rudra),
      • It can meet the High-Performance Computing (HPC) requirements of all governments and PSUs.
      • This is the first time that a server system was made in India, along with the full software stack developed by C-DAC.

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