Monday, 23 June 2014
IIT Kanpur has launched its second supercomputer this week. The new supercomputer is the 5th best in India in terms of its performance and is the best 130th in the world’s top 500 supercomputers list, published in November 2013.
The computer was developed at IIT-Kanpur
by a team lead by the institute's deputy director SC Srivastava. Ashish
Dutta, head of the computer centre unveiled the computer stated that the
new supercomputer would be used by the institute for education,
research and training. The new supercomputer
will benefit IIT Kanpur's advanced aircraft design and scientific
agri-forecasting projects. The computer was manufactured by HP and
assembled and tested by a team of engineers headed by IITK’s deputy
director SC Shrivastava..
Supercomputers are used in many areas of
science and engineering research," said Dutta. "The general area of
research that uses supercomputers is called high-performance computing
(HPC). HPC can simulate nuclear explosions, evolution of galaxies,
effects of pacemaker redesign, genetics and genetic related diseases,
medical drug discovery, aircraft flight, aerodynamics, etc."
This is the second supercomputer by
IIT-Kanpur. The institution’s previous HPC cluster was ranked 369 on the
June 2010 TOP500 list.
