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Supercomputers have become a reality in India with Wipro Infotech launching Supernova, a range of supercomputers with superstorage capacity, in the country.
According to Wipro Vice-President Personal ComputingAshutosh Vaidya, the price of a fully-functional teraflop supercomputer is around Rs 25 lakh. One teraflop is equal to one trillion floating point operations per second.
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.
