Q. 682: SUPERCOMPUTER BY ISRO

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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF SPACE
LOK SABHAUNSTARRED QUESTION NO 682
ANSWERED ON 03.08.2011

Shri SURESH KUMAR SHETKAR

RAJAGOPAL LAGADAPATI

Will the Minister of SPACE be pleased to state:-

(a) whether a supercomputer has been built by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO);

(b) if so, the details thereof;

(c) whether the supercomputer built by ISRO is comparable with supercomputers built by the other developed countries of the world;

(d) if so, the details thereof;

(e) whether the supercomputer would be useful to the people particularly students; and

(f) if so, the details thereof?
ANSWER: MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS AND IN PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE(SHRI V. NARAYANASAMY):

(a) Yes, Sir.

(b) Indian Space Research Organisation has built a supercomputer, which is India`s fastest supercomputer in terms of theoretical peak speed of 220 TeraFLOPS (220 Trillion Floating Point Operations per second). The new Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) based supercomputer named “SAGA-220` (Supercomputer for Aerospace with GPU Architecture-220 TeraFLOPS) is located at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram.

(c) & (d) Yes, Sir. ISRO’s supercomputer “SAGA-220” is the fastest supercomputer in India and it stands within top 50 supercomputers in the world. The fastest supercomputer belongs to Japan and has a theoretical peak speed of 8980 TeraFLOPS.

(e) & (f) Yes, Sir. “SAGA-220” supercomputer is useful for solving complex flow field problems that requires high performance computing. “SAGA-220” would be useful to students who take up such complex research work.

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