Earth Sciences Minister Kiren Rijiju is reportedly upset with the French IT firm Atos. Purpose is claimed to be delay within the supply of two supercomputers by the French firm to Indian climate forecasting institutes. In keeping 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 12 months 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 accredited buying the supercomputer. We’ve got solely 4 petaflop capability. We need to set up as much as 18 petaflop capability,” Rijiju instructed PTI in a video interview.
He stated that the French firm bumped into some monetary bother and needed the federal government to make cost to its subsidiary.
Minister says that the delay is inflicting him “fear”
Rijiju stated that the delay has prompted him a lot of fear as the corporate has overshot the timeline. “However I feel we are going to type it out quickly,” he stated, including that the federal government needed 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 downside is the quantity will not be small. So if we pay now, if the corporate is bankrupt or one thing occurs, who will bail out,” the minister stated.
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 even intervene as a result of we’ve a very good understanding and an excellent relationship with the French authorities.
“Since it’s a high-cost tools, we need to be certain that the transaction occurs duly and correctly,” he stated.
“From exterior, 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’ve entered an MoU with,” Rijiju stated.
The supercomputing system, primarily based 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’s 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 accredited buying the supercomputer. We’ve got solely 4 petaflop capability. We need to set up as much as 18 petaflop capability,” Rijiju instructed PTI in a video interview.
He stated that the French firm bumped into some monetary bother and needed the federal government to make cost to its subsidiary.
Minister says that the delay is inflicting him “fear”
Rijiju stated that the delay has prompted him a lot of fear as the corporate has overshot the timeline. “However I feel we are going to type it out quickly,” he stated, including that the federal government needed 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 downside is the quantity will not be small. So if we pay now, if the corporate is bankrupt or one thing occurs, who will bail out,” the minister stated.
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 even intervene as a result of we’ve a very good understanding and an excellent relationship with the French authorities.
“Since it’s a high-cost tools, we need to be certain that the transaction occurs duly and correctly,” he stated.
“From exterior, 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’ve entered an MoU with,” Rijiju stated.
The supercomputing system, primarily based 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’s 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.
