Indian Institute of Science Adopts Cray’s Petaflop Supercomputer; Nick Gorga Comments

Cray has installed a petaflop supercomputer at the Indian Institute of Science Supercomputing Education and Research Center in Bangalore to aid SERC research initiatives focused on high-performance computing.

The company said Monday the Cray XC40 supercomputer, dubbed SahasraT, is equipped with Intel Xeon processors, Dragonfly topology, Aries interconnect technology, DataWarp optional platforms, cooling systems and NVIDIA Tesla graphic processing unit accelerators.

“We are proud that SERC is now home to India’s first petaflop supercomputing system, which will power the [c]enter’s important computational science initiatives,” said Nick Gorga, Cray vice president of sales for Asia Pacific.

“The IISc is India’s premier institution for advanced scientific and technological research and education, and we are honored that a Cray XC40 supercomputer is the [c]enter’s primary computing resource for the IISc user community.”