India adds two more supercomputers to strengthen researches: Aims to deploy over 60 in next three years

India's HPC (high Performance Computing) initiative has finally gathered some much needed momentum as the country adds two more supercomputers to its growing computational repertoire. According to press reports, these new supercomputers are being deployed at IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Kharagpur and IISER (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research) Pune. 

This initiative comes as a part of  National Supercomputing Mission undertaken by India's Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. The mission is currently in its first phase in which a series of six supercomputers are to be installed in education and research facilities across the nation. The first one, named "Param-Shivay", is already functional at IIT Varanasi and can churn up-to 837 Teraflops of data. By December this year, another three will be made available to IIT Kanpur, IIT Hyderabad, and Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Studies (JNIAS) which will conclude the first phase.