Param Yuva II is India's fastest supercomputer unveiled in 2013. It has a peak performance of 524 teraflops and uses a hybrid system of high performance computers. Param Yuva II has a storage capacity of 200 TB and supports parallel computing through required software. It is more energy efficient than previous supercomputers, consuming 35% less power. The supercomputer will be useful for research in various fields like space, bioinformatics, weather forecasting, and more.
3. Introduction
Supercomputer is a broad term for one of
the fastest computer currently available.
Super computers were designed and built
to work on extremely large jobs that could
not be handled by no other types of
computing systems
4. Introduction
Supercomputers speed are measured in
floating point operations per second
(FLOPS) in units of
megaflops (MFOPS)
gigaflops (GFLOPS)
teraflops (TFLOPS)
5. History:-
India's supercomputer program was started in late 1980s.
PARAM 8000 is considered India's first supercomputer.
It was indigenously built in 1990 by Centre for
Development of Advanced Computing(C-DAC).
It was replicated and installed at ICAD Moscow in 1991
under Russian collaboration.
7. PARAM YUVA II
Param Yuva-II, which is claimed to be
India's fastest supercomputer, has been
unveiled in Pune.
It was unveiled on 8 February 2013.
Thish is a series of PARAM.
This is the first supercomputer that has
crossed 500 teraflops in computing power in
the country.
8.
9. Architecture
It performs at a peak speed of 524 Teraflops (a standard
terminology in the computing industry which measures
compute capacity).
This supercomputer uses Hybrid Technology - which
is network of high performance computers. This hybrid
technology has enabled the up-gradation of existing 54
Teraflops to 500 Teraflops peak computing power of
Indian Supercomputers.
Param Yuva II has high storage capacity(200 TB), it
supports parallel computing(infact all Supercomputers
must support this feature).
10. Architecture
The interconnection of this fastest computer is
comprised of Infiniband FDR System Area Network and
PARAMNet-III which is sure to offer a remarkable
efficiency.
Param Yuva II is made energy efficient and consumes
around 35% less power.
Even parallel computing is made possible by the
inclusion of required software.
Even parallel computing is made possible by the
inclusion of required software.
11. Specifications:-
It would have been ranked 33rd in the November 2012
List of Top Green 500 supercomputers of the world.
The entire project is said to have involved around 300
CDAC engineers. The Param Yuva-II is also said to be a
milestone in the Indian Information Technology
industry.
This computer is a stepping stone towards building the
future petaflop-range supercomputers in India.
Also, if supposedly the current system was used to
predict weather conditions in a 6 km area, Param Yuva II
would help in predicting weather conditions for a 10km
area etc.
12. Param Yuva II was made in a period of three months,
at a cost of 16 crore (US$3 million).
13. USES:-
Research in space
Bioinformatics
Weather forecasting
Seismic data analysis
Aeronautical engineering
Scientific data processing
Pharmaceutical development