The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has built a supercomputer, which will be India's fastest in terms of theoretical peak performance of 220 TeraFLOPS (220 Trillion Floating Point Operations per second).
Named Satish Dhawan Supercomputing Facility, it is located at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Thiruvananthapuram.
The new graphic processing unit (GPU)-based supercomputer, which has been named SAGA-220 (Super-computer for Aerospace with GPU Architecture-220 TeraFLOPS), would be used for solving complex aerospace problems, said an ISRO press release.
The supercomputer was fully designed and built by the VSSC, using commercially available hardware and open source software components. Its total cost was about Rs.14 crore.
ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan inaugurated it on Monday.
