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Key Points

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Investment of roughly four thousand five hundred crore Indian rupees underpins the mission.

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Six thousand Rudra servers have been deployed, with an additional 1,500 in production.

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More than 16,000 researchers, including over 2,900 doctoral scholars, have accessed the supercomputing facilities.

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The supercomputers have executed over 1.5 crore compute jobs and contributed to nearly 2,000 research publications.

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Future plans aim for 50 supercomputers with a total capacity exceeding 123 petaflops by 2047.

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Summary

The initiative emphasizes indigenous development, with the Rudra series of servers designed and manufactured domestically, reducing reliance on imported technology.

These high‑performance systems enable advanced research in artificial intelligence, climate modelling, genomics, disaster management, and drug discovery, directly supporting societal needs such as flood prediction and pollution monitoring.

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New Words to Learn

7 words
gigaflop
a measure of computer speed; one gigaflop equals one billion calculations per second
petaflop
a measure of computer speed; one petaflop equals one quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) calculations per second
indigenous
produced within the country rather than imported
high‑performance computing
using extremely fast computers to solve complex scientific and engineering problems
artificial intelligence
technology that enables computers to learn from data and make decisions
genomics
the study of an organism’s complete set of DNA
crude
a large unit of Indian currency; one crore equals ten million rupees
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