Bangalore: India is on a mission to become the country to home world’s fastest super computer by 2017. According to Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), the premier R&D organization of the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DietY), the super computer it is designing would be 61 times faster than the present world’s top Sequoia(developed by IBM), which has top processing speed of about 16.32 petaflop, making it the fastest computer on the planet. It’s about 55% faster than the Japanese Fujitsu K, which owned the crown until last year.

Presently India’s fastest supercomputer located at CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation ranks 58 in the list of  world’s top 500 super computers; so this India’s ambitious project to become world leader is a welcome.

The budget estimated for the project is 4,700 crore and over a period of 5 years. Indian Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal is said to have informed PM Manmohan Singh about developing “exaflop and peta flop range of super computers”.

Sibal has suggested that DietY should be provided with tasks to organize all the supercomputing activities, as the way the department has done the activities in the past.

When the project sees light of the day, India could hope to make inroads in to superior computing and R&D.