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Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has built a supercomputer, which it claims would be the country's fastest supercomputer in terms of theoretical peak performance of 220 teraflops (220 trillion floating point operations per second).
Dr K. Radhakrishnan, Chairman, ISRO, unveiled the supercomputer at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) here on Monday. ISRO has its supercomputing facility, Satish Dhawan Supercomputing Facility, at VSSC.
The new graphic processing unit (GPU)-based supercomputer, named SAGA-220 (Supercomputer for Aerospace with GPU Architecture-220 teraflops), would come in handy for space scientists dealing with complex aerospace problems, an official spokesman said here.
SAGA-220 has been fully designed and built by the VSSC using commercially available hardware, open source software components and through in-house development.
The system uses 400 Nvidia Tesla 2070 GPUs and 400 Intel Quad Core Xeon CPUs (central processing units) 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 tetraflops, the spokesman explained.
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