India’s most powerful computer to date, Param Padma, is ready and will be unveiled in about a month’s time, according to Rajeeva Ratna Shah, Secretary in the Central Government’s Department of Information Technology.Param Padma will have a peak computing power of one tera flop. Speaking to mediapersons yesterday, Shah said it could be scaled to achieve a power of 16 tera flops.Incidentally, the most powerful computer — built to simulate the earth, and study climatic and other effects on it — has a power of 36 tera flops. The US’s most powerful computer has a power of 13 tera flops.
