India’s NSM Selects France-based Atos to Build the Supercomputer
France-based IT firm Atos has been chosen to build the supercomputers under India’s Rs 4500 crore National Supercomputing Mission (NSM). This is a three-year contract and Atos would be making use of its energy-efficient Direct Liquid Cooled BullSequana supercomputers.
The tender to build these high-performance computers (HPC) had been floated by the Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in February this year. It has been stated that the contract was for all three phases of the NSM which would be running simultaneously.
“In Phase I, we will be assembling three supercomputers at an outlay of Rs 68 crore. In Phase II, it will be an aggregate of 10 petaflop, but the number of computers is yet to be decided,” Hemant Darbari, director-general, C-DAC said.
Atos has a major pre...