NVIDIA today announced that Indian Institute of Technology (IITD) Delhi’s supercomputer, which is powered by its GPU Tesla platform, has been featured as the 166th fastest world’s supercomputer in the list of TOP500. The newest entry in the global list from India is also the 4th fastest supercomputer in India. This 860 teraflops centralized computer system is the largest High Performance Computing (HPC) system across all IITs and is available to developers, end-users and researchers. Dr. Subodh Kumar, Associate head computer services center, IIT Delhi said, “We are happy to have commissioned the largest GPU-centric HPC cluster in the nation and among the top few in the world. The system is under active use by a variety of researchers. We are sure the capability multiplication that the system provides will enable them to reach the next level in their research and help solve challenging problems in Atmospheric Science, Molecular Systems, Biology, Nano-systems, and many other areas.”
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