NEW DELHI | PUNE: India is opening up its supercomputing programme to the private sector for the first time, prompting interest from some of the world's largest makers of personal computers and reflecting a new mindset that is open to partnerships outside the government.
The likes of ( #HPE ) Hewlett Packard Enterprises, #Lenovo, #Acer, #Dell owned #EMC Corporation, and #IBM are in the fray for the government's National Supercomputing Mission which involves a network of super computers which can help strengthen India's research and predictive capabilities in areas such as weather and climate modelling, biology and disaster management.
"Building these super computers requires huge facilities which we don't have," said Rajat Moona, director-general of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, referring to the capabilities of CDAC, the Indian Institute of Science and other government agencies. "At present we are in talks with a lot of companies and will soon go to the RFP (request for proposal) stage etc." He said that in the past CDAC has procured some hardware and software from private companies, but private players haven't built a super computer in India.
Approved by the Union Cabinet in March this year, the Rs 4,500-crore mission hopes to bolster the country's supercomputing prowess by adding 70 super computers to a national grid. India currently has only 10 super computers and is ranked 74th in global supercomputing pecking order which is led by China. The world's fastest supercomputer is China's Tianhe-2.
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