New Delhi, Feb 12: The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) has unveiled its latest computing innovation, the Param Yuva-II supercomputer. The supercomputer was inaugurated by J Satyanarayana, Secretary of the Department of Electronics and Information Technology on Friday at the C-DAC facility in Pune.
Param Yuva-II is is capable of crunching data up to 524 teraflops, about 10 times faster than the Param Yuva-I.
C-DAC said the processing power of the supercomputer was given a significant boost in order to faster crunching of data. C-DAC says that currently, meterologists are able to gather data for a 6 kilometer radius and with the performance upgrade, they should be able to expand their data collection to a 10 kilometer radius.
The development center also says the boost in processing power will be beneficial to the entire bioinformatics industry to work and formulate better vaccines and drugs to ward off illness.
The Param Yuva-II is also designed to be energy efficient as it reduces the cost of energy by a whooping 35 per cent as compared to the earlier facility.
"The facility is a stepping stone for the petaflop version of the supercomputer that India has envisioned. What we need to do now is speak to users, researchers and scientists and take feedback from them on the issues relating to usage of the facility and help them in accelerating their research work for the benefit of common man."
The Param Yuva-II marks a major milestone in the country's efforts to house the world's fastest supercomputer in the world by 2017.
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