IMSc unveils India's seventh-fastest supercomputer `Annapurna'
31 Jul 2010
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc) at Chennai today unveiled India's seventh-fastest supercomputer, Annapurna, to provide a boost to simulations and numerical calculations in the areas of statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics.
Annapurna is a high-performance computation (HPC) cluster having 1.5 Tera Byte (TB) memory and 30 TB storage space cluster capacity.
The supercomputer ranks below that installed at IISc Bangalore as well as the one at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, IMSc said, adding that it is on a par with the other supercomputers such as Vindhya, Aravalli and Kabru.
"Among broad-based scientific institutions in India, the Annapurna cluster is the third fastest, ranking below the IISc Bangalore and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai," an IMSc release said.
Atomic Energy Commission chairman Srikumar Banerjee who unveiled the high performance computer at an even at the IMSc highly appreciated the technical team for developing the super computer in a completely non-commercial domain.
The computer will boost academic research in the field of computational biology, statistical mechanics and numerical calculations.
