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Key Points

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Target: 50 home‑made supercomputers, 123 petaflops total.

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As of September 2026, 40 computers, 68 petaflops, are already running.

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PARAM Rudra uses about 6,000 Indian‑made servers.

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Supercomputers support research in space, materials, health, and the environment.

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Training programmes have helped over 16,000 researchers learn to use the machines.

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Summary

The plan is to have 50 supercomputers that together can do more than 123 petaflops, which is a huge amount of calculations.

Since 1991, India has built many computers, starting with PARAM 8000 and now the PARAM Rudra series.

These machines help with weather forecasts, flood warnings, and finding new medicines.

They also teach students how to use high‑performance computing.

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New Words to Learn

7 words
supercomputer
a very large and fast computer for solving big scientific problems
high‑performance computing
using many powerful computers together to work on difficult tasks quickly
petaflop
a unit that measures how many calculations a computer can do; one petaflop equals one thousand trillion calculations per second
teraflop
a unit of speed; one teraflop equals one trillion calculations per second
indigenous
made inside the country rather than imported
simulation
a computer model that imitates real‑world processes to study them
genomics
the study of all the genetic material of living organisms
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