India's Bargain Supercomputer

MaximusTheGreat writes "India beat U.S. supercomputer sanctions by building a teraflop $5 million PARAM Padma supercomputer, which is half the price of similar computers being sold in the international market. It can be scaled upto 16 teraflops, on a build-to-order basis For comparison, the fastest supercomputer in the U.S. is about 10 Teraflops. Some techical details and more info on CDAC , ITworld, Economic times and Asia Times. Also, India has been exporting older model PARAM 10000s to other countries like Russia, Canada, Germany etc. for some time, and expects to increase exports significantly with the new model PARAM Padma."

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Oh, that's just great

[I Am The Owl]

As if we needed one more nuclear power improving their weapons of mass destruction. Yes, the fact that India has their own supercomputer industry will surely put me at ease when they would very likely use their weapons against Pakistan at the drop of a hat.

Nuclear detonations on anything approaching a large scale will have global environmental consequences. I'm not going to kid myself that the Indian government is going to use this on anything so innocuous as cancer research. It's going to be either decryption, bio or chemical weapons research, or nuclear detonation simulation.