Earth Sciences Minister Kiren Rijiju is reportedly upset with the French IT firm Atos. Motive is claimed to be delay within the supply of two supercomputers by the French firm to Indian climate forecasting institutes. In line with a report in information company PTI, the Earth Sciences Ministry had ordered two supercomputers value $100 million from French agency Eviden, of the Atos Group, final yr to boost the computing capabilities of its establishments — the Nationwide Centre for Medium Vary Climate Forecasting (NCMRWF) and the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM).
“I’m extra upset as a result of the goal we set was December. The Union Cupboard had already authorized buying the supercomputer. We have now solely 4 petaflop capability. We need to set up as much as 18 petaflop capability,” Rijiju informed PTI in a video interview.
He mentioned that the French firm bumped into some monetary bother and wished the federal government to make fee to its subsidiary.
Minister says that the delay is inflicting him “fear”
Rijiju mentioned that the delay has precipitated him a number of fear as the corporate has overshot the timeline. “However I believe we are going to type it out quickly,” he mentioned, including that the federal government wished to be “very appropriate in our place legally”.
“We’re able to launch the cash as a result of we wish the machine instantly. The one drawback is the quantity just isn’t small. So if we pay now, if the corporate is bankrupt or one thing occurs, who will bail out,” the minister mentioned.
Rijiju additional added that the federal government was taking some steps to hurry up the supply of the supercomputer however didn’t elaborate. “However I hope the French authorities may also intervene as a result of we now have a great understanding and an excellent relationship with the French authorities.
“Since it’s a high-cost gear, we need to be sure that the transaction occurs duly and correctly,” he mentioned.
“From outdoors, every thing’s prepared. It is just the issue with the primary firm. They need us to pay their subsidiary. We can pay solely to an organization whom we now have entered an MoU with,” Rijiju mentioned.
The supercomputing system, based mostly on Eviden’s BullSequana XH2000, is claimed to have a mixed energy capability of as much as 21.3 petaflops.
Supercomputer at IITM
The supercomputer on the Pune-based IITM will present 13 petaflops of computing energy for ambiance and local weather analysis. As per the PTI report, it is going to combine 3,000 CPU nodes utilizing AMD EPYC 7643 processors and 26 GPU nodes via NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs. The system will profit from the NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand networking platform with In-Community Computing, 3PB all flash and 29PB disk-based DDN EXAScaler ES400NVX2 storage and Micron high-technology reminiscence.
The prevailing computing facility at NCMRWF is 2.8 petaflops and at IITM is 4 petaflops, respectively.
“I’m extra upset as a result of the goal we set was December. The Union Cupboard had already authorized buying the supercomputer. We have now solely 4 petaflop capability. We need to set up as much as 18 petaflop capability,” Rijiju informed PTI in a video interview.
He mentioned that the French firm bumped into some monetary bother and wished the federal government to make fee to its subsidiary.
Minister says that the delay is inflicting him “fear”
Rijiju mentioned that the delay has precipitated him a number of fear as the corporate has overshot the timeline. “However I believe we are going to type it out quickly,” he mentioned, including that the federal government wished to be “very appropriate in our place legally”.
“We’re able to launch the cash as a result of we wish the machine instantly. The one drawback is the quantity just isn’t small. So if we pay now, if the corporate is bankrupt or one thing occurs, who will bail out,” the minister mentioned.
Rijiju additional added that the federal government was taking some steps to hurry up the supply of the supercomputer however didn’t elaborate. “However I hope the French authorities may also intervene as a result of we now have a great understanding and an excellent relationship with the French authorities.
“Since it’s a high-cost gear, we need to be sure that the transaction occurs duly and correctly,” he mentioned.
“From outdoors, every thing’s prepared. It is just the issue with the primary firm. They need us to pay their subsidiary. We can pay solely to an organization whom we now have entered an MoU with,” Rijiju mentioned.
The supercomputing system, based mostly on Eviden’s BullSequana XH2000, is claimed to have a mixed energy capability of as much as 21.3 petaflops.
Supercomputer at IITM
The supercomputer on the Pune-based IITM will present 13 petaflops of computing energy for ambiance and local weather analysis. As per the PTI report, it is going to combine 3,000 CPU nodes utilizing AMD EPYC 7643 processors and 26 GPU nodes via NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs. The system will profit from the NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand networking platform with In-Community Computing, 3PB all flash and 29PB disk-based DDN EXAScaler ES400NVX2 storage and Micron high-technology reminiscence.
The prevailing computing facility at NCMRWF is 2.8 petaflops and at IITM is 4 petaflops, respectively.
