India’s third largest information technology firm, Wipro Ltd. Is building what will become the country’s fastest supercomputer for the Indian Space Research Organization (Isro)—giving the agency critical muscle to crunch large volumes of data as it designs more complex launch vehicles and sets out on ambitious space programmes.
The supercomputer, being built at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) in Thiruvananthapuram, will have a processing speed of 200-500 teraflops—one and a half times more powerful than India’s fastest computer now and at least twice faster than ISRO’s current supercomputing capability.
One teraflop is the ability to process one trillion mathematical operations in a second.
The supercomputer is likely to be commissioned in about three months. It is used for performing complex operations and computer modeling in applications involving large data sets, such as in designing space vehicles that launch satellites or in modeling and predicting the weather.
Investments for the new supercomputers runs into a few crores.It will be basically used for advanced computational fluid dynamic (CFD) studies associated with building complex launch platforms, stimulate physical & Chemical changes to predict performance .Moreover the system Isro is working on is a reusable launch vehicle.
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