Lok Sabha Question No. 446 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-12-12
Subject: National Supercomputing Mission
Ministry: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: POONAM  MAHAJAN

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF' SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.446 TO BE ANSWERED ON 12/12/2018

## NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING MISSION

## 446. SHRIMATI POONAM MAHAJAN:

be pleased to state:

- the salient features of the National Supercomputing Mission including its roadmap; nodal bodies (a) implementation, application groups of the Mission and the amount of funds sanctioned since responsible for the inception, year-wise;
- and terms of reference of various   committees that have been constituted for (b) the   composition implementing the Mission; and
- whether supercomputers have been installed under the acgis of the Mission since its inception, \_ (c) year-

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, MINISTER OF EARTH SCIENCES AND MINISTER OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

(DR HARSH VARDHAN)

- The National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) is approved for implementation with total estimated (a) crore over a Of seven years The Mission is to be jointly implemented by Ministry of Electronics and with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) ; the implementing   agencies. The   contribution of Meity would be Rs.1,760 crore and Bengaluru contribution of DST would be Rs.2740 crore period

Deliverables of the Mission include setting up of NSM facilities and infrastructure at 60 to 70 across the country; One Million core cloud with 25-30 Petabytes of storage; and National Super locations interconnecting various HPC systems over National Knowledge Network (NKN; R&D Computing Grid by readiness; and HPC based applications in atleast 5 major leading to next generation Exascale   computing professionals to handle and spearhead HPC areas; Human Resource Development (~20,000 trained activities). Key

The project was of Science (IISc), Bengaluru and Centre for   Development of Advanced Mission to Indian Institute

The (b) Advisory Committee. NSM-Expert Groups in infrastructure, R&D, HRD and Board, NSM-Technical Applications are attached at Annexure:

- There are two approaches that were planned; "Build" & "Buy" Under "Build" approach in (c) purchase order for the following three systems has been issued: phase-

IIT, Kharagpur:

1.3 PF

IIT, Varanasi:

650 TF

HISER, Pune:

650 TF.

Currently technical evaluation is underway for the "Buy" systems:

## IN THE REPLY TO PART (b) UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.446 FOR 12/12/2018 REGARDING NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING MISSION

Govemment of India Ministry of Communications & Information Technology Department of Electronics & Information Technology High Performance Computing Division (ReD in IT Group)

Dated: 4th June, 2015

Subject: Constitution of the National Supercomputing Mission Executive Board (NSM-EB) in respect of the  project  entitled 'National  Supercomputing Mission   (NSM): Building   Capacity & Capability' implemented jointly by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Department of Electronics and Information Technology (Deity): being

The   undersigned is directed to  refer to the Administrative Approval of  even number dated 09.04.2015 for the implementation of the above said project at the total estimated cost of Rs. 4500.00 Crore (Rupees Four Thousand Five Hundred Crore only) over period of seven years jointly by the Department  of Science and Technology (DST) and Information Technology (Deity) contribution of Department of Electronics & Information Technology would be One Thousand Seven Hundred   Sixty   Crore   only)   and contribution of Department of Science and Technology would be Rs.2740.00 Crore (Rupees Two Thousand Seven Hundred Forty Crore only).

2. The undersigned is now directed to convey the approval of the Competent Authority for the constitution of the National Supercomputing Mission Executive Board (NSM-EB) aS per the following composition and terms of reference

## A Composition of the NSM- Executive Board

| 1)                                                 | Secretary, Department of Science and Technology (DST)                  | Co-Chair   |
|----------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------|
| 2)                                                 | Secretary, Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Deity | Co-Chair   |
| 3)                                                 | JS&FA, Department of Science and Technology (DST)                      | Member     |
| 4)                                                 | JS&FA, Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY)    | Member     |
| 5)                                                 | Prof: Dewang V Khakhar; Director; IIT Mumbai                           | Member*    |
| 6)                                                 | Shri Kiran Karnik, Ex-President, NASSCOM                               | Member*    |
| 7)                                                 | Prof: UB. Desai, Director, IIT Hyderabad                               | Member*    |
| 8)                                                 | Representative, SERC, IISc, Bangalore                                  | Member     |
| 9)                                                 | Director General, C-DAC, Pune                                          | Member     |
| 10)                                                | Nominee of Secretary, Department of Expenditure (DoE)                  | Member     |
| 11)                                                |                                                                        | Member     |
| 12)                                                | Nominee of Secretary, Department of Biotechnology (DBT)                | Member     |
| 13)                                                | Nominee of Secretary, DAREI DG (ICAR)                                  | Member     |
| 14)                                                | Nominee of Secretary, Department of Health Research                    | Member     |
| 15)                                                | Nominee of Secretary, Department of Higher Education (MHRD)            | Member     |
| 16)                                                | Nominee of Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES)                | Member     |
| 17)                                                | Nominee of Secretary, Department of Space (DoS)                        | Member     |
| 18)                                                | Nominee of Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy (DAE)                | Member     |
| 19)                                                | Nominee of Secretary, DRDO                                             | Member     |
| 20)                                                | Nominee of CEO, NITI Aayog                                             | Member     |
| 21)                                                | DG, Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (ICERT)                    | Member     |
| 22)                                                | Director General, National Inforatics Centre (NIC)                     | Member     |
| 23)                                                | Head, National Supercomputing Mission Directorate                      | Convener   |
| Scientists of Eminence nominated by the Co-Chairs. | Scientists of Eminence nominated by the Co-Chairs.                     |            |

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- B Terms of Reference of the NSM- Executive Board : The NSM Executive Board shall be the executive body for NSM implementation Its broad Terms of Reference (ToR) would be as follows: apex
- Assign responsibilities to implementing agencies.
- (ii) Decide upon various projects in the mission based on inputs from Think Tank
- suggest suitable measures; as deemed fit; to meet the aims and objectives of the mission\_
- (iv) Authorize re-appropriation to augment provision under the various budget heads.
- Considering the latest trends and relevance, propose time-to-time alterations and modifications to the deliverables to meet the aims and objectives of the mission for approval of the Governing Board. from
- (vi) Consider and submit for the approval of the Governing Board the proposals for alterations, addition, and modifications to the deliverables of the mission:
- (vii) Appoint sub-committees from time-to-time and assign andlor delegate them the tasks that fall within the scope of such Committees set-up for efficient implementation of NSM
- (ix) The NSM-EB would meet as often as required and at least thrice in a year:

To

- Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister; Prime Minister Office, New Delhi
- 3\_ Secretary, Mlo Finance, North Block; New Delhi
- 2 Director; Cabinet Sccretariat; New Delhi
- Secretary, Department of Electronics and Information Technology:
6. JS&FA, Department of Electronics and Information Technology.
5. Secretary, DST; Technology Bhavan, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi:
- 7.
- 8.
- 9\_ Secretary, DSIR/ DG (CSIR) , New Delhi.
10. Secretary, Department of Biotechnology (DBT), New Delhi:
12. Secretary, Department of Health Research
14. Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), NDelhi.
13. Secretary, Department of Higher Education (MHRD)
15. Secretary, Department Space (DoS); New Delhi.
17. Secretary, DRDO, New Delhi\_
16. Secretary, Dlo Atomic Energy (DAE), New Delhi:
18. CEO, NITI Aayog; New Delhi:
20. Director, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore
19. Director General, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune:
- 21 Director General, Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (ICERT), DeitY.
23. GC (RD in IT), DeitY.
- 22\_ Director General, National Informatics Centre (NIC), Deity\_
- 24\_ HOD (HPC Division) , Deity.
- 26 Professor Dewang V Khakhar, IIT Mumbai.
- 25 . Shri Milind Kulkarni, Scientist F, Department of Science & Technology.
- 27
28. Prof. UB\_ Desai, Director, IIT Hyderabad
29. NSM Directorate
30. DeD Section (2 Copies) , DeitY\_
- }With a request to kindly

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Government of India

Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology

Website: Www.meity-govin

No\_\_

28th November; 2016

## OFFICE MEMORANDUM

- Subject: Extension of the term of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) constituted in respect of the project entitled "National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) Building Capacity & Capability" being implemented jointly by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST)

The undersigned is directed to refer t0 the Administrative Approval of even number dated 9"h April, 2015 for the implementation of the above said project at the total estimated cost f Rs\_ 4500.00 Crore (Rupees Four Thousand Five Hundred Crore only) over period of seven jointly by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST): contribution  of the\_Ministry  of Electronics and Information Technology would be Rs. 1760.00 Crore (Rupees One Thousand Seven Hundred Sixty Crore only) and contribution of the Department of Science and Technology would be Rs: 2740.00 Crore (Rupees Two Thousalid Seven Hundred Forty Crorc only) and this Ministry' $ Office Memorandum dated 26"h November; 2015 regarding Constitution of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) in respect of the project entitled "National  Supercomputing Mission (NSM) Building Capacity & Capability" . years

- The undersigned is now directed to convey the approval of the Competent Authority for the extension of the term of the Technical Advisory committee for of two years i.e. upto 26t November; 2018. period
- 3\_ There is no change in the Composition of the Technical Advisory Committee as communicated vide this Ministry'$ Office Memorandum of even number dated 26th November, 2015.
- 4, The Terms of Reference of' the Technical Advisory Committee have been modified to the extent ahove\_
5. The Composition of the Technical Committee and the Terms of Reference of the TAC aS €mmunicated earlier vide O.M. dated acvizo November; 2015 are placed at Annexure-[.

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- Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, Prime Minister Office, New Delhi:
- 3\_ Secretary, Ministry of Finance, North Block, New Delhi.
- 2\_ Director; Cabinet Secretariat, New Delhi:
- 4 Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, New Delhi.
6. AS&FA, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, New Delhi:
- 5\_ Secretary, DST, Technology Bhavan, New Mehrauli Raod, New Delhi.
- 7\_ JS&FA, DST, Technology Bhavan, New Mehrauli Raod, New Delhi:
- 9
- 8 Secretary. Department of Expenditure (DoE) New Delhi
10. Dr:   Vijay P Bhatkar,  Chairman,   Governing Council, Indian [nstitute of Technology, Delhi.
12. Dr. D. Nayak,  Chief  Controller (Research &  Development), Defence Research and Development Organization, Delhi.
11. Prof. N. Balakrishnan, Honorary Professor, Indian Institute of  Science; Bangalore
13. Prof Rajat Moona, Director General, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune.
- 15 . Shri. B. S. Jagadeesh, Outstanding Scientist, Bhaba Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai.
14. Prof. R Govindarajan, Chairman,   Supercomputer and Research Bagalore. Centre ,
16. Prof: Alok Bhattacharya, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
18. Group Coordinator (R&D in IT), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Delhi.
17. Shri. N. Mohan Advisor (High Performance Computing), Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore\_ Ram \_
19. Head, High Performance Computing Department of Science and Technology, Delhi: Group.
20. Head, High Performance Computing Division, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Delhi:
22. Sanction File:

|                                                   |                                                                                                                                          | Annexure-[   |
|---------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------|
| A Composition of the Technical Advisory Committee | A Composition of the Technical Advisory Committee                                                                                        |              |
|                                                   | Dr. V. K Saraswat Member, NITI Aayog; New Delhi:                                                                                         | Chairman     |
| 2_                                                | Dr. Vijay P. Bhatkar Chairman, Governing Council, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.                                                 | Member       |
| 3                                                 | Prof. N. Balakrishnan Honorary Professor Indian Institute of Sciencc, Bangalore.                                                         | Member       |
| 4                                                 | Chief Controller (Research & Development) Defence Research and Development Organization , Delhi.                                         | Member       |
| 5_                                                | Prof. Rajat Moona Director General Centre for Development of Advanced Computing; Pune.                                                   | Member       |
| 6_                                                | Prof: R. Govindarajan Chairman, Supercomputer Education and Research Centre, Bangalore_                                                  | Member       |
|                                                   | Shri B. S. Jagadeesh Outstanding Scientist Bhabha Atomic Research Center; Mumbai_                                                        | Member       |
| 8_                                                | Prof: Alok Bhattacharya Dean, Department of Life Sciences Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi:                                        | Member       |
|                                                   | Shri N. Mohan Ram Advisor (High Performance Computing)                                                                                   | Member       |
|                                                   | Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore. 10. Group Coordinator (R&D in IT) Department of Electronics and Information Technology, New Delhi: | Member       |
|                                                   | Head, High Performance Computing Group Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi:                                                  | Member       |
| 12.                                               | Head, High Performance Computing Division Department of Electronics and Information Technology, New Delhi:                               | Convenor     |

## B. Terms of Reference of the Technical Advisory Committee:

- To workout the implementation strategy of the mission.
- ii. To provide evidence based inputs to NSM-EB On positioning of technologies from time-to time vis-a-vis the international technological developments.
- iii: To define the overall deliverables of the mission and would make recommendations on developed etc\_ key
- iv into consideration the technology forecasts towards exascale computing taking
- To provide overall direction to implementing agencies in executing the mission and monitor the progress of implementation to ensure smooth progress of the mission.
- It would be responsible to ensure that the objectives of the mission in terms of attaining
- vi. leadership in supercomputing and & roadmap towards self reliance
- vii\_
- viii. The initial term of the Technical Advisory Committee is one year;
- ix TAIDA for  non-official by Deity as per Government of India norms. borne

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Website: WWwdeity-govin

Dated

2016

Subject Constitution of four Expert Groups under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) viz (i) Expert Group on on Application Development; and (iv) Expert Group on Human Resources Development: Group

April, National  Supercomputing Mission (NSM): the   project   enlitled Science and Technology Capacity & Capability" jointly by the Department of ODST) and Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) at the total estimated cOst of Rs: 4SO0.00 Crore (Rupces Four Thousand Five Hundred Crore years with contribution of Rs. [760.00 Crore only) over a period of seven (Rupees One Thousand Seven Hundred Sixty Crore only) by the Department of Elcctronics and Information Technology and contribution of Rs 2740.00 Crore (Rupees Two Thousand Seven Hundred Forty Crore only) by the Department Of Science and Technology: Building

Expert Groups under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) to provide expertise and direction in the respective areas of implementation viz. (i) Expert Group On Infrastructure; (ii) Expert Group on Research and Development (R&D); (iii) Expert on Application  Development; and (iv) Expert Group o Resources Development. The composition(s) of the Groups and their respective Terms of Reference as under: are Group Human Expert

## Expert Group O Infrastructure

| Shri B $ Jagadeesh, Outstanding Scientist Bhabha Atomic Rescarch Centre (BARC) Mumbai             | Chairman                         |
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------|
| Prot: Milind Rane Department of Mechanical Engineering Indian Institute of Mumbai Bombay.         | Member                           |
| Shri H Krishhamurthy, Chief Research Scientist Indian Institute of                                | Member                           |
| Shri R S Mani,_STD_NIC and Project DirectorNKN, New Delhi                                         | Membcr                           |
| Shri R P Thangavelu, Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation (CMMACS) Bengaluru | Member                           |
| Dr Subrato Chatopadhyaya. Associate Director. C-DAC. Bengaluru                                    | Member                           |
| Shri Ignesius Ernest Thambyraj- Member: Cloud Computing Innovation Council of India               | Member (Industry Representative) |
| of Electronics & Information                                                                      | Mcmbcr                           |
| Shri Sanjay Wandhekar , Associate Director. C-DAC Vune                                            | Convener                         |

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## Terms of Reference Of thc Expert Croup on Infrastructure:

- To draw the lechnical specifications of NSM infrastructure including specifications of systems; architecture, connectivity. data centre etc.
- To give update of the important developments in systems and data centre technologies\_
- To work   closely expert   group to   understand the specific architectural needs while drawing specifications.
- To identify user ageneies based on their compute, space and power requirement etc. for deploying tlie systems and provide recommendations to TAC.
- TAIDA in respect of non-official members would be borne from the NSM [und\_
- Chairman can CO-opt additional experts as and when required.

## Expert Group n Research & Development (R&D)

| Prof. R Govindarajan_ Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru                                                                 | Chairman                         |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------|
| Prof. Mainak Chaudhuri, Indian Institute of Technology (WT) Kanpur                                                          | Member                           |
| Prof. Ashwin Gumaste_ Indian Institute ol" Technology (WT) Bombay                                                           | Member                           |
|                                                                                                                             | Member                           |
| Sh Anupam Mondal Advanced Numerical Research & Analysis Group (ANURAG); Defence Research and Development Oganization (DRDO) | Member                           |
| Mrs. Gectha Manjunath, Xerox Reserch Centre India (XRCL)                                                                    | Member (Industry Representative) |
| Representative of Department of Electronics & Information Teclnology/ Department of Science and Technology                  | Member                           |
| N. Mangla , Joint Director. C-DAC Bengaluru Ms                                                                              | Convener                         |

## Terms of Refereuce of the Expert Group on Rescarch Development (R&D):

- To define (ramneworks and components for building exa-scale supercomputing systems key
- To give update of the iportant developments in system architecture. infrastructure management, scalable algorithms. fuluristic applications, power optimization techniques, cooling technologies elc.
- To identify NSM R&D programs to be taken up for these technologics:
- Revicw and Monitor the R&D projects/programs taken up under the mission\_
- Evaluate the R&D proposals and provide recommendations to TAC.
- Chairman can CO-opt additional experts as and whcn required\_
- TA/DA in respect of non-oflicial membcrs would be bome from the NSM fund

## Expert Group o Application Development

| Prof. Alok Bhattacharya Jawaharlal Nchru University JNU), New Delhi                                                       | Chairman                         |
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| Prof . S Balasubramanian; Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) Iengaluru                     | Member                           |
| Prof . Yashwant (iupta Nalional Centre for Kadio Astrophysics ( NCRA) Tata Institute ot Fundamnental Research (TIFR) Pune | Member                           |
| Prof. Sanjav Mittal. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Kanpur                                                           | Member                           |
| Prof. Ravi Nanjundiah . Indian Institute of Science ( ISc_ Bengaluru                                                      | Member                           |
| Sherlekar; Sankhya Sutra Labs Pvt Lid.                                                                                    | Member (Industry Representative) |
| Defence Research and Devclopment Laboratory (DRDL) Ilyderabad                                                             | Member                           |
| Kepresentative of Department of Electronics &                                                                             | Member                           |
|                                                                                                                           | Convener                         |

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## Terus of Reference Of the Expert Group on Application Development:

- Identification of applications keeping in mind requirements of end users in extramural application application breakthroughs, quantifying their societal, environmental and economical impacts and performing gap analysis between current situation and required targets\_ key
- Interact closely with expert group 0 infrastructure t0 address the architectural needs of specific applications
- Identification of scalable algorithms. libraries targeted towards selected hardware platforms that can be used i# identified applications and proposes for development of these\_ key
- Identify and recommend bringing O board, ocal and domain experts who can contribute towards selected applications global
- Rcvicw and Monitor the application development/deployment taken up under the mission.
- Evaluate the application development proposals and provide recommendations to TAC
- Chairman can co-opt additional experts as and when required\_

## Expert Group on Human Resourccs Dcvclopment

| Dr Jaya Panvalkar, Chairman Govemning Council. SVNIT , Surat             | Chairman (Undustry Representative)   |
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| Prol . Kalpesh Kapoor Technology (IT) Guwahati                           | Member                               |
| Prol: Sanjoy Randyopadhyay, Indi:u Institute of Technology (UT Kharzgpur | Member                               |
| S Krishnaswamy, Madurai Kamraj University                                | Member                               |
| Prol. Sathish Vadhiyar, Indian Institute of Science USc)  Bengaluru      | Memnber                              |
| Indian Institute of                                                      | Member                               |
| Teehnology/ Department of Science and Technology                         | Member                               |
| Slwri Ashish Kuvelkar, Associate Director;, C-DAC Pune                   | Convener                             |

## Terms of Reference Of the Expert Group on Human Resource Development:

- To investigate and describe state-of-the-art, trends, and future needs in HPC training and education
- DJesign the education and training programs t0 mnect objectives ot NSM to develop HPC aware manpower. and formulate the delivery mechanisms of these programs across the country.
- djut the courses t0 include newer programming paradigms
- and define Higher education at UG. PG and PG diploma level education in HPC. lan
- TADA in respect of non-oflicial members would be borne from the NSM fund
- Secrelary. Departmnent of Electronics and Information Technology\_
- 1 Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) Pune

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