India to soon have Supercomputer worth Rupees 900 crore for weather forecasting by year end.

India will soon acquire
its fastest Supercomputer worth Rupees 900 crore and is expected to start
functioning by March 2024, said Union Minister of Earth Sciences, Kiren
Rijiju during his visit to the National Centre for Medium Range Weather
Forecasting (NCMRWF) in NOIDA, Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday.
This was Rijiju’s first
visit to a research centre under the Ministry of Earth Sciences since assuming
charge.
According to Rijiju,
with the supercomputer’s acquisition, India will acquire the weather monitoring
mechanism with the highest resolution of probabilistic forecast.
He said, “The new
computer can improve forecasting from 12 to 6 kms. Compared to the Cray XC-40
supercomputer ‘Mihir’ with a performance of 6.8 petaFLOPS (PFLOPS), India’s
fastest supercomputer at present, the new supercomputer will have nearly thrice
the capability, viz 18 PFLOPS.”
“The facilities at this world class centre
will benefit all sectors, all sections of the society, in fact every individual
of the country is going to get the benefit directly from this institution,” he
added.
The Minister of Earth Sciences further said India’s weather forecasting
capability are improving day by day.
“Under the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s leadership, India has
made significant advances in the application of Science & Technology. We
are also extending weather forecasts to countries in the neighbourhood and
beyond,” he said.
The premises of NCMRWF, the Centre of Excellence in Weather and Climate
Modelling, also hosts the BIMSTEC Centre on Weather and Climate (BCWC) of the
regional grouping ‘Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and
Economic Cooperation’ (BIMSTEC), comprising seven Member States, - five from
South Asia, including Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and two from
Southeast Asia, including Myanmar and Thailand.
Rijiju while talking about the NCMRWF said, NCMRWF is a leading
institution of its kind in the world and that it’s a matter of great pride for
India that NCMRWF is going to be the world class centre.
Source-Ministry of
Earth Sciences
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