Anupam (supercomputer)

Anupam is a series of supercomputers designed and developed by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) for their internal usages. It is mainly used for molecular dynamical simulations, reactor physics, theoretical physics, computational chemistry, computational fluid dynamics, and finite element analysis.[1]

The latest in the series is Anupam-Aganya.[2][3]

Introduction

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Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) carries out inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary R&D activities covering a wide range of disciplines in physical sciences, chemical sciences, biological sciences and engineering. Expertise at BARC covers the entire spectrum of science and technology.[4]

BARC has started development of supercomputers under the ANUPAM project in 1991 and till date, has developed more than 20 different computer systems. All ANUPAM systems have employed parallel processing as the underlying philosophy and MIMD (Multiple Instruction Multiple Data) as the core architecture. BARC, being a multidisciplinary research organization, has a large pool of scientists and engineers, working in various aspects of nuclear science and technology and thus are involved in doing diverse nature of computations.

To keep the gestation period short, the parallel computers were built with commercially available off-the-shelf components, with BARC's major contribution being in the areas of system integration, system engineering, system software development, application software development, fine tuning of the system and support to a diverse set of users.

The series started with a small four-processor system in 1991 with a sustained performance of 34 MFlops. Keeping in mind the ever increasing demands from the users, new systems have been built regularly with increasing computational power. The latest in the series of supercomputers is the 4608 core ANUPAM-Adhya system developed in 2010-11, with a sustained performance of 47 TeraFLOPS on the standard High Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark. The system is in production mode and released to users.[5]

In 2001, BARC achieved a new milestone in developing a supercomputer 20-25 times faster than the fastest computer built by other institutes in the country when it commissioned ANUPAM-PENTIUM.[6]

Anupam Systems

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Sr. No. Name Processing Power Year No. of Processors Installation
1 ANUPAM-AGANYA 270 TFLOPS 2016- 6440 cores + 20 9984 core GPU Trombay
2 ANUPAM-AGGRA 150 TFLOPS 2012- 8160 cores + 80 512 core GPU Trombay
3 ANUPAM-ADHYA 47 TFLOPS 2010- 4608 cores @ 3.0 GHz Trombay
4 ANUPAM-AJEYA 9.036 TFLOPS 1152 cores Trombay
5 ANUPAM-AMEYA 1.73 TFLOPS 512 cores Trombay
6 ANUPAM-ARUNA 365 GFLOPS 128 cores
7 ANUPAM-XENON 202 GFLOPS 2003-04 128 cores @ 2.4 GHz [7]
8 ANUPAM-PIV 43 GFLOPS 2002-03 64 cores @ 1.7 GHz
9 ANUPAM-PENTIUM 15 GFLOPS 2001–02 84 cores @ 600 MHz
10 ANUPAM-PENTIUM 16 cores
11 ANUPAM-ALPHA 1 GFLOPS 1997-98 Replaced CRAY XMP216 at NCMRWF, Mausam Bhavan, New Delhi
12 ANUPAM-ASHVA 64
13 ANUPAM 860/4 30 MFLOPS 1991 4 cores

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Nuclear India". Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India. July–August 2001.
  2. ^ Basu, Sekhar (Jan 26, 2014). 65 th Republic Day of India - BARC (PDF). Trombay: Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. p. http://www.barc.gov.in/presentations/20140126.pdf. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  3. ^ "70th Independence Day Celebration - Address by Director, BARC" (PDF). BARC. 15 August 2016.
  4. ^ "THE EVOLUTION OF ANUPAM SUPERCOMPUTERS" (PDF). BARC Newsletter. April 1, 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2017. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
  5. ^ "ANUPAM-Adhya Supercomputer" (PDF). BARC Newsletter. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-19. Retrieved 2015-01-15.
  6. ^ "BARC develops supercomputer". The Hindu. 2001-07-05. Archived from the original on January 18, 2015. Retrieved July 5, 2001.
  7. ^ "Barc makes high-speed ANUPAM supercomputer". The Times of India. Retrieved 9 July 2003.