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Vijay Pandurang Bhatkar is an Indian computer scientist, IT leader and educationalist. He is best known as the architect of India's national initiative in supercomputing where he led the development of Param supercomputers. [2]
The Government of India created an indigenous development programme as they had difficulty purchasing foreign supercomputers. [1] As of November 2024 [update] , the AIRAWAT supercomputer is the fastest supercomputer in India, having been ranked 136th fastest in the world in the TOP500 supercomputer list. [ 2 ]
It also does not include not a new idea, indigenous alternatives, low-cost alternatives, technologies or discoveries developed elsewhere and later invented separately in India, nor inventions by Indian emigres or Indian diaspora in other places. Changes in minor concepts of design or style and artistic innovations do not appear in the lists.
[note 1] It is the first multi-PetaFlops supercomputer ever built in India. [4] Pratyush and Mihir are two High Performance Computing (HPC) units. They are located at two government institutes, one being 4.0 PetaFlops unit at IITM, Pune and another 2.8 PetaFlops unit at the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF), Noida ...
A Cray-1 supercomputer preserved at the Deutsches Museum. The history of supercomputing goes back to the 1960s when a series of computers at Control Data Corporation (CDC) were designed by Seymour Cray to use innovative designs and parallelism to achieve superior computational peak performance. [1]
The project was given an initial run of three years and an initial funding of ₹ 30,00,00,000, the cost of a Cray supercomputer. [7] A prototype computer was benchmarked at the 1990 Zurich Super-computing Show. It demonstrated that India had the second most powerful, publicly demonstrated, supercomputer in the world after the United States. [7 ...
Rangaswamy Narasimhan (April 17, 1926 – September 3, 2007) was an Indian computer and cognitive scientist, regarded by many as the father of computer science research in India. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He led the team which developed the TIFRAC , the first Indian indigenous computer [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and was instrumental in the establishment of CMC Limited in ...
Raju was a key contributor to the first Indian supercomputer, PARAM (1988–91), [2] Raju has also engaged in historical research, most notably claiming that the Jesuits transmitted infinitesimal calculus to Europe from India. [4] [5] [6] It was possible, but no trace of it has yet been found.