India Installs 34 Supercomputers with 35 Petaflops Capacity Under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).

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On 28 April 2025, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) announced the successful deployment of 34 supercomputers across India with a combined computing power of 35 Petaflops (10 lakh gigabytes, GB) under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).


      - NSM has significantly enhanced access to advanced computational resources for researchers, especially in smaller cities, by providing them with world-class supercomputing infrastructure.

      - These 34 supercomputers have been installed at premier academic and research institutions including the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), various Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), C-DAC, and multiple institutions in Tier-II and Tier-III cities.

     

Main Point :-   (i) NSM was launched in 2015 by the Government of India (GoI) with the goal of strengthening India’s capabilities in the field of supercomputing and developing indigenous high-performance computing (HPC) systems.

      (ii) It is a joint initiative of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and MeitY.

(iii) The mission is being implemented by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune, and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru (Karnataka).
About Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)

Minister : Ashwini Vaishnaw
Headquarters: New Delhi
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