India Plans To Build Fastest Supercomputer By 2017

Posted by samzenpus on Monday September 17, 2012 @03:52AM from the top-of-the-list dept.

First time accepted submitter darkstar019 writes "India is planning to build a computer that is going to be at least 61 times faster than the current fastest super computer, IBM Sequoia. Right now the most powerful supercomputer in India is 58th in the list of top 100 supercomputers. From the article: 'Telecom and IT Minister Kapil Sibal is understood to have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sharing the roadmap to develop "petaflop and exaflop range of supercomputers" at an estimated cost of Rs 4,700 crore over 5 years.'"

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Difference between 2007 and 2012 was only 34x grea by Turboglh · 2012-09-17 04:11 · Score: 3, Interesting

http://www.top500.org/lists/2007/11
http://www.top500.org/lists/2012/06
Should be interesting to see them double the rate of growth over the preceding five years