New Delhi: India’s push for self-reliance in high-performance computing has accelerated under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), with 37 supercomputers deployed so far and several more in the pipeline.
The mission, launched in April 2015 with an outlay of Rs 4,500 crore, aims to give researchers, academic institutions, startups and industry access to advanced supercomputing infrastructure while building critical components domestically.
Jointly implemented by the Ministry of Electronics and IT and the Department of Science and Technology (DST), the NSM is executed through C-DAC, Pune and IISc Bengaluru.
Among these already deployed supercomputers, 34 were installed in the last five years, taking the country’s total computing power to 40 petaflops. Six additional systems worth Rs 680 crore are currently being set up across leading institutions, including IITs, IIScs, R&D labs and centres in tier two and three cities.
A key milestone has been the development of the indigenously built “PARAM Rudra” series, powered by locally designed Rudra servers and a homegrown software stack. These systems, running at over 81 per cent utilisation, have supported more than 13,000 researchers and enabled over one crore compute jobs, contributing to 1,500 research publications.
The mission has also fostered technological breakthroughs, including indigenous high-speed interconnects, cooling technologies, HPC software stacks and PARAM Shavak, a compact supercomputing platform for colleges.
India is now advancing work on HPC processors, accelerators and storage, reinforcing its bid for long-term self-reliance in supercomputing.
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