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Official TranscriptGOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 585 ANSWERED ON 03/12/2025 INDIGENOUS INITIATIVES FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)-SPECIFIC SUPERCOMPUTERS 585. SHRI VISHNU DATT SHARMA: Will the Minister of SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY be pleased to state: (a) whether the Government is undertaking or supporting any...
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 585 ANSWERED ON 03/12/2025 INDIGENOUS INITIATIVES FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)-SPECIFIC SUPERCOMPUTERS
585. SHRI VISHNU DATT SHARMA:
Will the Minister of SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY be pleased to state:
(a) whether the Government is undertaking or supporting any indigenous initiatives to design and develop Artificial Intelligence (AI)-specific supercomputers in the country, comparable to global benchmarks set by companies like NVIDIA and others;
(b) if so, the details of the institutions or consortia involved in such initiatives and the status of infrastructure development, research collaborations and hardware or chip design efforts being carried out;
(c) the roadmap proposed to ensure indigenous design of High- Performance Computing (HPC) systems including AI processors, accelerators, or AI chips and integration with the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM);
(d) if not, the reasons for the absence of such focused indigenous initiatives; and
(e) whether the Government proposes to formulate a national program for India-specific AI hardware and supercomputing ecosystem development and if so, the details thereof? ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND EARTH SCIENCES (DR. JITENDRA SINGH)
(a) to (b): Under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), so far, 37 supercomputers, with a combined capacity of about 39 Petaflops (PF) have been designed, built and commissioned. These supercomputers are located in academic institutions universities, and R&D labs across the country, the details are given in Annexure. 10 more supercomputers are presently being commissioned, including National Facility with India's largest HPC & AI set- up with a capacity of 20 PF.
Page 1 of 4Various indigenous supercomputing sub-components, including Servers, High speed interconnect, System Software Stack, Direct-to-Chip Liquid Cooling (DCLC) technologies have been developed for self-reliance.
With this, indigenous supercomputing ecosystem of design and manufacturing of these components has been developed with industry partners.
These indigenous PARAM Rudra supercomputers are built using indigenous software stack and Rudra series of servers designed, developed and manufactured in the country. These Rudra series of servers have been designed by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) for HPC and AI using Processors and Accelerators from chip vendors like Intel, AMD and NVIDIA and are being manufactured by Indian Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) vendors, M/s VVDN Technologies and M/s Kaynes Technologies. So far, 6000 Rudra servers are deployed in PARAM Rudra Supercomputers and additional 1500 Servers are being manufactured.
(c) to (e): In continuation of NSM, as part of NSM 2.0 roadmap is being developed for next generation supercomputing ecosystem.
Under NSM 2.0, it is also being contemplated to develop India’s own processor/hardware with industry partners.
Page 2 of 4Annexure Sr. Installed Supercomputers Under NSM Compute Year of Power Commissioning
1. C-DAC, Pune 150 TF 2017
2. C-DAC, Pune 100 TF 2018
3. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), 838TF 2019 Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
4. Indian Institute of Science Education 1.7 PF 2020 and Research, Pune
5. IIT, Kharagpur 1.66 PF 2020
6. Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced 1.8PF 2020 Scientific Research, Bengaluru
7. IIT, Kanpur 1.66 PF 2020
8. C-DAC, Pune, National AI Facility 6.5 2020 PF/210PF
(AI)
9. C-DAC, Pune 100 TF 2020
10. C-DAC, Pune 100 TF 2020
11. Society for Electronic Transactions 100 TF 2020 and Security (SETS), Chennai
12. C-DAC, Bengaluru 82 TF 2020
13. C-DAC, Pune 27 TF 2020
14. IIT, Hyderabad 838 TF 2021
15. National Agri-Food Biotechnology 838 TF 2021 Institute (NABI), Mohali
16. C-DAC, Bengaluru, National MSME 838 TF 2021 Facility
17. C-DAC, Pune 230 TF 2021
18. IIT, Roorkee 1.66 PF 2022
19. Indian Institute of Science (IISc), 3.3 PF 2022 Bengaluru
20. IIT, Gandhinagar 838 TF 2022
21. National Institute of Technology (NIT), 838 TF 2022 Trichy
22. IIT, Guwahati 838TF 2022
23. IIT, Mandi 838 TF 2022
24. C-DAC, Pune 52.3 TF 2022
25. IIT, Kharagpur 52.3 TF 2022
26. IIT, Palakkad 52.3 TF 2022
27. IIT, Chennai 52.3 TF 2022
28. IIT, Goa 52.3 TF 2022
29. PARAM Rudra Pilot 1 PF 2023 Page 3 of 4Sr. Installed Supercomputers Under NSM Compute Year of Power Commissioning
30. National Informatics Centre (NIC), New (50 AI 2024 Delhi PF/1.3 PF)
31. C-DAC, New Delhi 200 TF 2024 32 Inter-University Accelerator Centre 3 PF 2024
(IUAC), New Delhi
33. National Centre for Radio Astrophysics 1 PF 2024
(NCRA), Pune
34. S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic 838 TF 2024 Sciences, Kolkata
35. IIT, Bombay 3 PF 2025
36. IIT, Madras 3 PF 2025
37. IIT, Patna 838 TF 2025 Total ~39 PF ***** Page 4 of 4