NATIONAL SUPER COMPUTING MISSION (NSM)

About:

• The National Supercomputing Mission was launched to enhance the research capacities and capabilities in the country by connecting them to form a Supercomputing grid, with National Knowledge Network (NKN) as the backbone.
  
  
• The Mission is being jointly steered by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and implemented by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune, and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.
  
  

Phases:

• Computing infrastructure has already been installed in four premier institutions and installation work is in rapid progress in 9 more.
  
  
• Completion in of Phase II of NSM in September 2021 will take the country’s computing power to 16 Petaflops (PF).
  
  
• Phase III, initiated this year, will take the computing speed to around 45 Petaflops. This will include three systems of 3 PF each and one system of 20PF as a national facility.