INDIAN
SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION [ISRO] builds India's Fastest Super
Computer....SAGA-220. India has now official broke into top ten super
computers in the world. "SAGA-220" Supercomputer is fully designed and
built by Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre using commercially available
hardware, open source software components and in house developments. The
system uses 400 NVIDIA Tesla 2070 GPUs and 400 Intel
Quad Core Xeon CPUs supplied by WIPRO with a high speed interconnect.
With each GPU and CPU providing a performance of 500 GigaFLOPS and 50
GigaFLOPS respectively, the theoretical peak performance of the system
amounts to 220 TeraFLOPS. The present GPU system offers significant
advantage over the conventional CPU based system in terms of cost, power
and space requirements. The total cost of this Supercomputer is about
Rs. 14 crores. The system is environmentally green and consumes a power
of only 150 kW. This system can also be easily scaled to many PetaFLOPS
(1000 TeraFLOPS).
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