India's Fastest Super Computer -- SAGA-220

                 India’s
Fastest Super Computer is SAGA-220
now. Yes, SAGA-220 - Supercomputer
for Aerospace with GPU Architecture-220
TeraFLOPS.   Indian Space Research
Organization (ISRO) has unveiled India’s supercomputer SAGA220 built by the
Satish Dhawan Supercomputing Facility located at the labs of Vikram Sarabhai
Space Center(VSCC), Thiruvananthapuram at a cost of about Rs 14 crore was
inaugurated by K Radhakrishnan, Chairman ISRO at VSSC a week back. It is capable of a
theoretical peak performance of 220 TeraFLOPS (trillion
floating point operations per second).

                 The new Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) based supercomputer,
"SAGA-220"  is being used by
space scientists for solving complex aerospace problems.  The present GPU system offers significant
advantage over the conventional CPU based system in terms of cost, power and
space requirements.  World’s fastest computer, Tianhe-1A
has a peak performance of 2566 TeraFLOPS which is followed by Jaguar-Cray with 1759 TeraFLOPS.  Now, SAGA displaces India’s
existing supercomputer by Tata Sons called EKA which has a peak performance of
172.61 TeraFLOPS.  These are the only two
super computers of India
which will be featured in the top 100 list of supercomputers.
Despite SAGA-220
has 220 TeraFLOPS speed, it would not even figure in the top 10 list of
world’s supercomputers. It would be placed at 28th
position.  If SAGA touches the 1000
TeraFLOPS peak performance it would immediately be positioned at 11th rank.

Features of SAGA-220 :

1. 220 Trillion Floating Point
   Operations Per Second (TeraFLOPS).
   
   
   
   


2. Costed Rs. 14 crores. EKA has
   costed Tata Sons an approximate 320 crore rupees ($30 million).


3. Built from commercially
   available hardware, open source software and in house development.


4. Uses 400 NVIDIA Tesla 2070
   GPUs and 400 Intel Quad Core Xeon CPU’s supplied by Wipro with each GPU
   and CPU providing a performance of 500 GigaFLOPS and 50 GigaFLOPS
   respectively.


5. Consumes only 150 Kw of
   power.


6. Can be scaled up to many
   PetaFLOPS (1,000 TeraFLOPS).

            This is really a good work by our INDIA, but this is not enough, we can do more. Wishing
India All the Very Best for the next work, Hope atleast that will get a place
in the top 10 list.

Source : IBNLive