{"id":11529,"date":"2013-06-19T14:23:39","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T08:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=11529"},"modified":"2013-06-19T14:23:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T08:53:39","slug":"trivandrums-own-supercomputer-saga-220-ready-for-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/trivandrums-own-supercomputer-saga-220-ready-for-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Trivandrum&#8217;s own Supercomputer SAGA-220 ready for upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SAGA-220<\/strong>, one of India\u2019s top ten supercomputers located at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thumba is all set to get a major upgrade. The SAGA-220 was the \u2018fastest\u2019 supercomputer in the country when it was inaugurated in May 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Now the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has mooted a proposal to increase the computing abilities of SAGA-220. Once the up-gradation work is done SAGA-220 will be re-named as \u2018SAGA-440\u2019.<em><strong> ISRO\u2019s SAGA-220<\/strong> <\/em>which currently has a speed of 220 tera-FLOPS (220 trillion Floating Point Operations Per Second) will upgraded to 440 TF capability.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a proposal to upgrade the computer, but the work has not started yet&#8221; said VSSC director S Ramakrishnan.<\/p>\n<p>The space engineers designed and built the supercomputer using commercially available hardware, in-house technology and open source software components. The SAGA-220 is powered by a 400 NVIDIA Tesla 2070 GPUs and 400 Intel Quad Core Xeon CPUs supplied by Wipro with a high-speed interconnect. SAGA-220 is being used by space scientists for unravelling the aerospace problems. The super computer was also used to store data on the wealth discovered in the vaults of the Sree Padmanabha Swamy Temple in Trivandrum. Currently, SAGA-220 is ranked fifth in India and 174th in the world.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the National University of Defence Technology, China developed the world&#8217;s fastest supercomputer Tianhe-2, almost doubling the speed of the U.S. machine Titan, that previously claimed the top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAGA-220, one of India\u2019s top ten supercomputers located at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thumba is all set to get a major upgrade. The SAGA-220 was the \u2018fastest\u2019 supercomputer in the country when it was inaugurated in May 2011. Now the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has mooted a proposal to increase the computing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4,5],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-11529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","category-technology","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}