Lok Sabha Question No. 778 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-02-05
Subject: Third Phase of National Supercomputing Mission
Ministry: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: Gautham Sigamani Pon, Ganesan Selvam, C.N. Annadurai, Dhanush M Kumar, Gajanan Chandrakant Kirtikar

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 778 TO BE ANSWERED ON 05/02/2021

Third Phase of National Supercomputing Mission

778.    SHRI GAUTHAM SIGAMANI PON:

SHRI SELVAM G.:

SHRI C.N. ANNADURAI:

SHRI DHANUSH M. KUMAR:

SHRI GAJANAN KIRTIKAR:

Will the Minister of SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY वान और ौयोगक

- मंी be pleased to state:
- (a)      whether  the  Government  has  announced  the  third  phase  of  National Super Computing Mission and if so, the details thereof ;
- (b)      whether  the  Government  has  achieved  the  objective  for  which  Phase  I and  II  of  National  Super  Computing  Mission  were  launched  and  if  so,  the details thereof;
- (c)     whether  the  Government  has  conducted  any  study  to  assess  the developments under the National Super Computing Mission in the last three years and if so, the details of the assessment and action taken thereon;
- (d)      whether  the  Government  proposes  to  connect  all  academic  and  R&D Institutions across the country to the National Super Computing Grid and if so, the details thereof and the steps taken in this direction; and
- (e)     the other steps taken/being taken by the Government to make India one among the league of world class computing power stations?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE; MINISTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; AND MINISTER OF EARTH SCIENCES (DR. HARSH VARDHAN)

वाय और परवार कयाण मंी , वान और ौयोगक मंी और पृ वी वान मंी ( डॉ . हष वधन )

- (a)         Yes  Sir.  All  three  phases  of  Build  approach  of  National  Super  Computing Mission (NSM) started concurrently for creating supercomputing infrastructure in the nation.  These  Phases are Phase-I: Assembled  in India, Phase-II: Manufactured  in India & Phase-III: Designed and manufactured in India.

- (b)        Yes  Sir.  Six  Supercomputing  systems  of  NSM  Phase-I  and  Phase-2  have been installed out of which four are operational. Hardware Subsystems for nine more Supercomputing systems of Phase-II have been manufactured in India and delivered to the host institutes (end users). Thus a total number of 15 Supercomputers with an aggregate  compute  capacity  of  21  Peta  Flops  are  targeted  to  be  deployed  under NSM Phase-I and Phase-II, at identified end user host institutes. These systems will be connected via National Knowledge Network (NKN) as its backbone.
- (c)        NSM - Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) chaired by Dr V. K. Saraswat, Member,  NITI  Aayog  and  NSM  -  Executive  Board  (EB)  co-chaired  by  Secretary, MeitY  and  Secretary,  DST  have  been  continuously  monitoring  and  providing guidance with new  ideas.  The Executive Committee's recommendations  are implemented  by  Centre  for  Development  of  Advanced  Computing  (C-DAC)  and Indian  Institute  of  Science  (IISc),  the  two  implementing  Institutes,  in  a  regular manner.
- (d)        More  than  75  academic  and  R&D  institutions  are  to  be  connected  to  the National  Supercomputing Grid.  The  Institutions  have  been  identified.  The  Phase-1 supercomputing systems are being used by more than 900 academicians, scientists and  engineers  across  the  country  and  have  executed  more  than  14  Lakhs supercomputing jobs till date.
- (e)        All  Phase-II  Supercomputing  systems  are  manufactured  in  India,  by  local EMS manufacturers and are equipped with indigenous software stack. The Phase-III Supercomputing systems are to be designed by C-DAC and manufactured in India by  local  EMS  manufacturers  in  line  with  AtmaNirbhar  Bharat  Mission.  Various hardware and software subsystems of Supercomputer are designed and developed by  C-DAC.  PARAM  Siddhi  -  AI,  the  State-of-the-Art  large-scale  HPC-AI  scalable infrastructure  of  210  AI  Petaflops  established  under  National  Supercomputing Mission (NSM) at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune is currently  the  fastest  and  most  powerful  machine  in  the  country  and  ranks  62nd among the Top Supercomputers of the world. This infrastructure will help accelerate experiments and outcomes for India-specific grand challenge problems in areas such as Health Care, Education, Energy, Cyber  Security,  Space,  Automotive  and Agriculture.  It  will  catalyze  partnerships  with  the  Academia,  Industry,  MSMEs  and Start-ups.

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