C-DAC’s AI Supercomputer ‘AIRAWAT’ Ranks 75th In Top 500 Supercomputing List

The AI Supercomputer ‘AIRAWAT’ installed at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune has been ranked 75th in the world.

The supercomputer was ranked in the 61st edition of Top 500 Global Supercomputing List on Wednesday at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC 2023) in Germany. It categorises India among the top of AI Supercomputing nations worldwide.

The system is installed under National Program on AI by Government of India.

Speaking on this achievement, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) Secretary Alkesh Sharma said, “Artificial Intelligence is the most promising technology in the digital age. India has a strong ecosystem and competitive advantage for AI due to its massive data availability, strong digital economy and skilled workforce.”

“Proof of Concept (PoC) AI Research Analytics and Knowledge Dissemination Platform (AIRAWAT) of 200 AI Petaflops Mixed Precision peak compute capacity is currently funded by MeitY and implemented by C-DAC, Pune. The AIRAWAT PoC of 200 AI Petaflops integrated with PARAM Siddhi – AI of 210 AI Petaflops gives a total peak compute of 410 AI Petaflops Mixed Precision and sustained compute capacity of 8.5 Petaflops (Rmax) Double Precision. The peak compute capacity (Double Precision, Rpeak) is 13 Petaflops,” said Abhishek Singh, President & CEO, NeGD and MeitY Additional Secretary.

Netweb Technologies is the manufacturer of AIRAWAT and the supercomputer runs on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS operating system. The supercomputer is powered by AMD EPYC 7742 64C 2.25GHz processor with 81,344 cores.