Meet Pratyush, India's Fastest Supercomputer

    • indiatimes.com
    • Publish Date: Jan 10 2018 3:25PM
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    • Updated Date: Jan 10 2018 3:25PM
Meet Pratyush, India's Fastest Supercomputer

India just took its supercomputing game to the next level, with a new addition from the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM).

IITM on Monday unveiled Pratyush, a 6.8 petaflop array of processors dedicated to weather and climate analysis. For those of you that don’t know why that’s impressive, a petaflop is a measure of a supercomputer’s processing speed, meaning int can perform one quadrillion floating point operations per second (FLOPS). For Pratyush, multiply that measure by 6.8.

According to IITM, Pratyush is now the fourth-most powerful weather research computer in the world, following in the footsteps of counterparts in Japan, USA, and the UK.

Pratyush also singlehandedly moved India’s spot on the world’s top 500 supercomputer list from current no. 368 to the mid 30s.

The array is being segmented in two; a 4.0 petaflop machine will be installed at IITM Pune, and a 2.8 petaflops facility at the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecast in Noida. The Indian government had sanctioned the machine’s development last year for a whopping Rs 450 crore, in order to improve our monsoon forecasting, among other things. 

"As a result of added computing power, the number of farmers who receive weather information through text messages is expected to increase from 24 million at present to 45 million by 2019," Union Minister Harsh Vardhan said. In addition, Pratyush's computing ability should also help map regions of the country at a 3 km resolution for weather forecasts. 

 

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Ishita Singh MOUNT CARMEL SCHOOL(DWARKA)

A really good job done by the researchers of IITM. India is a country where most of the agricultural land is rain-fed in such a situation Pratyush would contribute a lot to the agriculture sector.

CHHAVI RANA RUKMINI DEVI PUB. SCHOOL(PITAMPURA)

Good job!! Accolades!!

Roma Ramcoumar Bethel Mat Hr Sec School

Every day atleast one farmer is sacrificing his life . Especially in Tamil nadu . More than 200 farmers died because of this weather .So from this we can conclude that weather is most important factor for farming . . So Pratyush will play a crucial role in farming . All the best Pratyush .

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