HPC Initiatives in India
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Event Type
Workshop
Applications
Government Strategies, Programs, and Funding
HPC Center Planning and Operations
TimeMonday, November 13th10:30am -
10:45am
Location708
DescriptionIn this talk we present the High Performance Computing
(HPC) scenario in India and (new) initiatives taken. It
will also cover the National Supercomputing Mission
(NSM), an initiative by Government of India, jointly
funded by the Department of Science and Technology and
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. The
objectives of this mission are manyfold: create a number
of state-of-the-art supercomputing centers, connected by
a powerful network, to meet the HPC demands of
researchers in the national academic and R&D
institutions; develop a number of supercomputing
application packages and advancement in several areas of
science and engineering; create a large pool of highly
skilled manpower in supercomputing; and initiate R&D
activities for next generation HPC Systems. In addition,
the talk will also cover the plans and initiatives of
other national organizations such as the Ministry of
Earth Sciences and Council of Scientific and Industrial
Research.
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