National Supercomputing Mission

National Supercomputing Mission is a visionary programme to enable India to leapfrog to the league of world class computing power nations. The NDA Government approved the Supercomputing Mission at a total cost of ` 4500 cr in March 2015.

The Mission envisages installing a vast supercomputing grid comprising of more than 70 high-performance computing facilities. The Mission also includes development of highly professional High Performance Computing (HPC) aware human resource for meeting challenges of development of these applications. Supercomputing capability would add a great value to realize the goals of Digital India.

The 6 supercomputing systems in Phase I are to be made operational in 2017.