Summary
Today, the nation runs 40 powerful computers that together reach a speed of 68 petaflops.
The National Supercomputing Mission, started in 2015, funds and guides this growth.
Key Points
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The government allocated about four thousand five hundred crore Indian rupees for the mission.
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More than 6,000 Rudra servers, created by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, are now in use.
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These computers support artificial intelligence, weather forecasting, drug discovery, and disaster management.
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Over 16,000 researchers and nearly 3,000 PhD students use the supercomputers for their studies.
New Words to Learn
5 wordssuper‑computing
using very powerful computers to solve huge and complex problems
petaflop
a measurement of computer speed; one petaflop equals one quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) calculations per second
artificial intelligence
computer programs that can learn and make decisions like a human brain
Rudra server
a special computer component built in India for super‑computers
National Supercomputing Mission
the Indian government's plan to create many super‑fast computers across the country
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