Lok Sabha Question No. 3442 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-03-22
Subject: National Supercomputing Mission
Ministry: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: HEENA VIJAYKUMAR GAVIT, SUPRIYA SADANAND SULE, VIJAYSINH MOHITE PATIL, JAYAKUMAR JAYAVARDHAN, BHARATENDRA SINGH, DHANANJAY BHIMRAO MAHADIK

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.3442 TO BE ANSWERED ON 22/3/2017

## NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING MISSION

## 3442. DR. HEENA VIJAYKUMAR GAVIT:

SHRIMATI SUPRIYA SULE:

SHRI MOHITE PATIL VIJAYSINH SHANKARRAO:

DR. J. JAYAVARDHAN:

KUNWAR BHARATENDRA:

SHRI DHANANJAY MAHADIK:

Will the Minister of SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY òãðìððÐð ¡ðøÜ ÑßðøÌðð÷ò±ð¨îó Ùðüëðó be pleased to state:

- (a) the progress made by the National Supercomputing Mission including its first supercomputer proposed to be built by 2017;
- (b) whether the Government is collaborating with private entities on applications for the supercomputer and if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether the Government has taken any measures to develop High Performance Computing (HPC) and the human resource for running these applications and if so, the details thereof; and
- (d) whether the Government proposes to connect all academic and R&D Institutions across the country to the national supercomputing grid and if so, the details thereof and the steps taken in this direction?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EARTH SCIENCES (SHRI.Y. S. CHOWDARY)

## òãðìððÐð ¡ðøÜ ÑßðøÌðð÷ò±ð¨îó ÙðüëððâðÚð Ùð÷ü Üð¸Úð Ùðüëðó +ÉÉè® ÑðöÆãðó òãðìððÐð ÙðüëððâðÚð Ùð÷ü Üð¸Úð Ùðüëðó

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- (a) Madam, under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), it is planned to build three supercomputers of varying capacity during the year 2017. The architecture of these three systems and its locations for installation have also been identified and the implementing agencies namely Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Pune and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru have already initiated the process for site preparation.
- (b) Under the NSM, an Expert Group for HPC Applications Development has been formed, which has identified various application areas of importance to the Nation which includes Drug Development Platform; Climate, Weather &  Disaster  Predictions;  Predictive  &  Personalized  medicine;  Geophysical  Applications  etc.  The  NSM  envisages collaboration  with  researchers  from  various  Universities,  Institutions  and  Government  National  laboratories. Interactions with private entities are also being explored by the NSM-Expert Group.
- (c) Yes Madam. HPC-aware human resource development is a key deliverable of this Mission. The NSM-Expert Group  on  Human  Resource  Development  is  working  towards  developing  a  framework  including  the  course curriculum for running HPC courses and programs at various levels including undergraduate, postgraduate diploma and postgraduate levels. C-DAC has already started a 6-month PG Diploma course, the first batch of which graduated in February 2017. The Expert Group is working with Department of Higher Education in introducing HPC related courses in undergraduate and post-graduate levels, from next academic session.
- (d) Yes Madam. The Supercomputing facilities that are proposed to be set up across the country will be provided connectivity to National Knowledge Network (NKN). National Knowledge Network (NKN) is inter-connecting all knowledge and research institutions in the country through a high bandwidth network. Access will be available for academic  and  R&D  institutions  to  use  these  supercomputing  facilities  over  National  Supercomputing  Grid.  The Supercomputing Grid will be used for enabling large-scale, reliable and efficient sharing of heterogeneous computing resources  spread  across  the  supercomputing  facilities.  Each  of  the  supercomputing  facilities  is  proposed  to  be connected to the national supercomputing grid immediately on setup.
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