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India's need for high-performance computing rises as AI use expands

Government and private companies are placing orders for high-performance machines

computer power, AI, artificial intelligence
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Shivani ShindeSourabh Lele
The earth science ministry in June awarded a $100 million contract to Eviden, a division of Paris-based Atos, to build two supercomputers for weather modelling and climate research by the Indian Institute for Tropical Meteorology (IITM) and the National Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF).

The supercomputers will have a combined power capacity of up to 21.3 petaflop – a unit for measuring a computer’s speed – and will rely on a technology that cools systems using warm water. The supercomputer for NCMRWF, which is in Noida, will have a computing capacity of 8.3 petaflop for weather and climate modelling

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