Lok Sabha Question No. 585 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-12-03
Subject: Indigenous Initiatives for Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Specific Supercomputers
Ministry: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: Shri Vishnu Datt Sharma

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

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 585 ANSWERED ON 03/12/2025

## INDIGENOUS INITIATIVES FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)-SPECIFIC

SUPERCOMPUTERS

## 585.  SHRI VISHNU DATT SHARMA:

Will the Minister of SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government is undertaking or supporting any indigenous initiatives to design and develop Artificial Intelligence (AI)-specific supercomputers in the country, comparable to global benchmarks set by companies like NVIDIA and others;
- (b) if  so,  the  details  of  the  institutions  or  consortia  involved  in  such initiatives and the status of infrastructure development, research collaborations and hardware or chip design efforts being carried out;
- (c) the roadmap proposed to ensure indigenous design of HighPerformance Computing (HPC) systems including AI processors, accelerators, or AI chips and integration with the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM);
- (d) if  not,  the  reasons  for  the  absence  of  such  focused  indigenous initiatives; and
- (e) whether the Government proposes to formulate a national program for India-specific  AI  hardware  and  supercomputing  ecosystem  development and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND EARTH SCIENCES (DR. JITENDRA SINGH)

(a) to (b): Under  National  Supercomputing  Mission  (NSM),  so  far,  37 supercomputers, with a combined capacity of about 39 Petaflops (PF) have been designed, built and commissioned. These supercomputers are located in academic institutions universities, and R&D labs across the country, the details are given in Annexure. 10 more supercomputers are presently being commissioned, including National Facility with India's largest HPC & AI setup with a capacity of 20 PF.

Various  indigenous  supercomputing  sub-components,  including  Servers, High speed interconnect, System Software Stack, Direct-to-Chip Liquid Cooling (DCLC) technologies have been developed for self-reliance. With this, indigenous supercomputing ecosystem of design and manufacturing  of  these  components  has  been  developed  with  industry partners.

These indigenous PARAM Rudra supercomputers are built using indigenous software  stack  and  Rudra  series  of  servers  designed,  developed  and manufactured  in  the  country.    These  Rudra  series  of  servers  have  been designed by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) for HPC and AI using Processors and Accelerators from chip vendors like Intel, AMD  and  NVIDIA  and  are  being  manufactured  by  Indian  Electronic Manufacturing  Services  (EMS)  vendors,  M/s  VVDN  Technologies  and  M/s Kaynes Technologies. So far, 6000 Rudra servers are deployed in PARAM Rudra Supercomputers and additional 1500 Servers are being manufactured.

- (c) to (e): In  continuation  of  NSM,  as  part  of  NSM  2.0  roadmap  is  being developed for next generation supercomputing ecosystem.

Under  NSM  2.0,  it  is  also  being  contemplated  to  develop  India's  own processor/hardware with industry partners.

## Annexure

|   Sr. | Installed Supercomputers Under NSM                                       | Compute Power     |   Year of Commissioning |
|-------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------|-------------------------|
|     1 | C-DAC, Pune                                                              | 150 TF            |                    2017 |
|     2 | C-DAC, Pune                                                              | 100 TF            |                    2018 |
|     3 | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi | 838TF             |                    2019 |
|     4 | Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune                 | 1.7 PF            |                    2020 |
|     5 | IIT, Kharagpur                                                           | 1.66 PF           |                    2020 |
|     6 | Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru      | 1.8PF             |                    2020 |
|     7 | IIT, Kanpur                                                              | 1.66 PF           |                    2020 |
|     8 | C-DAC, Pune, National AI Facility                                        | 6.5 PF/210PF (AI) |                    2020 |
|     9 | C-DAC, Pune                                                              | 100 TF            |                    2020 |
|    10 | C-DAC, Pune                                                              | 100 TF            |                    2020 |
|    11 | Society for Electronic Transactions and Security (SETS), Chennai         | 100 TF            |                    2020 |
|    12 | C-DAC, Bengaluru                                                         | 82 TF             |                    2020 |
|    13 | C-DAC, Pune                                                              | 27 TF             |                    2020 |
|    14 | IIT, Hyderabad                                                           | 838 TF            |                    2021 |
|    15 | National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), Mohali                | 838 TF            |                    2021 |
|    16 | C-DAC, Bengaluru, National MSME Facility                                 | 838 TF            |                    2021 |
|    17 | C-DAC, Pune                                                              | 230 TF            |                    2021 |
|    18 | IIT, Roorkee                                                             | 1.66 PF           |                    2022 |
|    19 | Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru                            | 3.3 PF            |                    2022 |
|    20 | IIT, Gandhinagar                                                         | 838 TF            |                    2022 |
|    21 | National Institute of Technology (NIT), Trichy                           | 838 TF            |                    2022 |
|    22 | IIT, Guwahati                                                            | 838TF             |                    2022 |
|    23 | IIT, Mandi                                                               | 838 TF            |                    2022 |
|    24 | C-DAC, Pune                                                              | 52.3 TF           |                    2022 |
|    25 | IIT, Kharagpur                                                           | 52.3 TF           |                    2022 |
|    26 | IIT, Palakkad                                                            | 52.3 TF           |                    2022 |
|    27 | IIT, Chennai                                                             | 52.3 TF           |                    2022 |
|    28 | IIT, Goa                                                                 | 52.3 TF           |                    2022 |
|    29 | PARAM Rudra Pilot                                                        | 1 PF              |                    2023 |

| Sr.   | Installed Supercomputers Under NSM                     | Compute Power     | Year of Commissioning   |
|-------|--------------------------------------------------------|-------------------|-------------------------|
| 30.   | National Informatics Centre (NIC), New Delhi           | (50 AI PF/1.3 PF) | 2024                    |
| 31.   | C-DAC, New Delhi                                       | 200 TF            | 2024                    |
| 32    | Inter-University Accelerator Centre (IUAC), New Delhi  | 3 PF              | 2024                    |
| 33.   | National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA), Pune    | 1 PF              | 2024                    |
| 34.   | S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata | 838 TF            | 2024                    |
| 35.   | IIT, Bombay                                            | 3 PF              | 2025                    |
| 36.   | IIT, Madras                                            | 3 PF              | 2025                    |
| 37.   | IIT, Patna                                             | 838 TF            | 2025                    |
|       | Total                                                  | ~39 PF            |                         |

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