BARC+supercomputer

India's Anupam supercomputer is among top 500

MUMBAI: Achieving a new standard in high-performance computers, the Anupam Ajeya supercomputing system has achieved a performance rating of 9 Terraflop in high-performance Linpac benchmark.

"This capability will correspond to a world ranking of around 110 in the family of top 500 super computers," according to Dr Srikumar Banerjee, Director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), which has developed this supercomputer. The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) grid has now connected four centers – Trombay in Mumbai, Kalpakkam, Kolkata and Indore through this system.

As part of its developmental initiatives, a high resolution Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometer has been designed and fabricated at the Hyderabad-based Centre for Compositional Characterisation of Materials. The spectrometer, which an energy resolution of 2KeV, can provide composition and thickness related information on ultra-thin multi-layers, comprising elements with close atomic numbers.

For the prestigious Chandrayaan-1 Moon Mission of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the BARC has designed and supplied Servo Control Systems for steering and tracking 32-metre solid, parabolic dish antenna of 130 tons with very high tracking speed of 0.4 degree/second.

Dr Banerjee informed that earlier this year the Krushak Irradiator at Lasalgaon became the first Cobalt-60 gamma irradiation facility in the world to be certified by the United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service for phyto-sanitary treatment of mangoes. Consequently, this facility enabled export of 157 tonnes of mangoes, mainly of alphanso and kesar variety to the US, after a gap of 18 years.

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