(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?
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.