Supercomputer becomes reality in India

8220;It will be affordable to huge segments of people,8221; Vaidya told reporters on Wednesday night. The company targets engineering colleges, institutions of higher learning and corporates undertaking 8220;serious8221; R038;D to sell the product.

8220;It8217;s difficult to put the number addressable market in India. There will be explosive growth,8221; he added.

Wipro Infotech, a division of the USD-3.39-billion Wipro Ltd, is building Supernova grounds up in exclusive partnership with Z RESEARCH, Inc, a California-based organisation specialised in commoditising supercomputers and superstorage, with a development centre here.

Supernova includes a range of supercomputers with an entry-level configuration delivering one trillion mathematical calculations per second going up to hundred thousand trillions calculations per second and superstorage scaling to multiple hundred petabytes.

8220;Supercomputers are no longer in the realm of science fiction in India,8221; said Anand Babu Periasamy, who co-founded Z RESEARCH in 2005.