Lok Sabha Question No. 45 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-12-07
Subject: National Supercomputing Mission
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: Vishnu Dutt Sharma, Vinod Chavda

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 45

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 07.12.2022

## NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING MISSION

## 45. SHRI VISHNU DATT SHARMA SHRI VINOD L. CHAVDA

Will the Minister of ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY be pleased to state:

- (a)  the current status of outcomes achieved in 'National Supercomputing Mission', launched in 2015, in relation to its mandate of connecting national academic and R&D institutions with a grid of more than 70 high-performance computing facilities and skilling of 20000 manpower in the field by 2022;
- (b): whether it is a fact that in the top 500 supercomputers of the world, China has listed 173 supercomputers and India has just 3 supercomputers in the list; and
- (c):  if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI RAJEEV CHANDRASEKHAR)

- (a):  Under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), Supercomputers have been deployed at  20  institutions  with  total  capacity  of  24  Petaflops(10 15 )    till  date  (List  attached).  100 institutions  are  connected  to  these  systems  over  National  Knowledge  Network  (NKN).  17500 manpower have been skilled till date.
- (b): India has 3 Supercomputers in Top500 list of Supercomputers of the world.
- (c): Following 3 supercomputers are listed in the November 2020 top 500 list:
1. PARAM Siddhi-AI at C-DAC Pune built under NSM - Rank 122
2. Pratyush at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune- Rank 143
3. Mihir  at  National  Centre  for  Medium  Range  Weather  Forecasting  (NCMRWF)  Rank 277

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Phase-1 and Phase-2 (15 Nos):

|   Sr. No. | Institute Name     | HPC System Name   | Computing Power   |   Year of Commissioning |
|-----------|--------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------------|
|         1 | IIT(BHU), Varanasi | PARAM Shivay      | 838TF             |                    2019 |
|         2 | IISER, Pune        | PARAM Brahma      | 1.7PF             |                    2020 |
|         3 | IIT, Kharagpur     | PARAM Shakti      | 1.66PF            |                    2020 |
|         4 | JNCASR, Bangalore  | PARAM Yukti       | 1.8PF             |                    2020 |
|         5 | IIT, Kanpur        | PARAM Sanganak    | 1.66PF            |                    2020 |
|         6 | C-DAC, Pune        | PARAM Siddhi      | 5.2PF/210PF (AI)  |                    2020 |
|         7 | IIT, Hyderabad     | PARAM Seva        | 838TF             |                    2021 |
|         8 | NABI, Mohali       | PARAM Smriti      | 838TF             |                    2021 |
|         9 | C-DAC, Bangalore   | PARAM Utkarsh     | 838TF             |                    2021 |
|        10 | IISc, Bangalore    | PARAM Pravega     | 3.3PF             |                    2022 |
|        11 | IIT, Roorkee       | PARAM Ganga       | 1.66PF            |                    2022 |
|        12 | IIT, Gandhinagar   | PARAM Ananta      | 838TF             |                    2022 |
|        13 | NIT, Trichy        | PARAM Porul       | 838TF             |                    2022 |
|        14 | IIT, Guwahati      | PARAM Kamrupa     | 838TF             |                    2022 |
|        15 | IIT, Mandi         | PARAM Himalaya    | 838TF             |                    2022 |

Param Vidya Systems under NSM HRD (5 Nos):

|   Sr. No. | Institute Name   | HPC System Name   | Computing Power   |   Year of Commissioning |
|-----------|------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------------|
|        16 | C-DAC, Pune      | Param Vidya       | 52.3 TF           |                    2022 |
|        17 | IIT, Kharagpur   | Param Vidya       | 52.3 TF           |                    2022 |
|        18 | IIT, Palakkad    | Param Vidya       | 52.3 TF           |                    2022 |
|        19 | IIT, Chennai     | Param Vidya       | 52.3 TF           |                    2022 |
|        20 | IIT, Goa         | Param Vidya       | 52.3 TF           |                    2022 |

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Annexure NSM SYSTEMS