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posted by martyb on Thursday July 27 2017, @12:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the more-better-faster dept.

https://www.hpcwire.com/2017/07/26/india-plots-three-phase-indigenous-supercomputing-strategy/

Additional details on India's plans to stand up an indigenous supercomputer came to light earlier this week. As reported in the Indian press, the Rs 4,500-crore (~$675 million) supercomputing project, approved by the Indian government in March 2015, is preparing to install six machines, ranging from a half-petaflops to 2 petaflops in size, by year end. Three of these will be completely foreign-built and three will begin incorporating Indian design elements and assembly in preparation for a fully made-in-India supercomputer.

Under the leadership of prime minister Narendra Modi and within the auspices of the "Make in India" initiative, at least fifty new supercomputers will be built over three phases of a seven-year program. This is all part of India's National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) to create a grid of supercomputers connecting academic and research institutions across the country. Rajat Moona, director-general of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), has said that at least 50 percent of the supercomputers will be Indian-made.

Related: Reality check: India's 2017 'fastest supercomputer' plan a pipedream (2012)
India Planning to Deploy 10-Petaflop Supercomputer


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Arik on Thursday July 27 2017, @02:10AM (5 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Thursday July 27 2017, @02:10AM (#544965) Journal
    "Do the Indians have some competent programmers they keep back, somehow hide, and don't use for off-shored or cheap-on-a-visa contracts?"

    Yes, I can confirm, they definitely do.

    When you off-shore to save money, you don't wind up getting their best. Are you really naïve enough to be surprised by that?

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  • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday July 27 2017, @02:34AM (3 children)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Thursday July 27 2017, @02:34AM (#544972) Journal

    When an Amercian-based, Indian software company puts lousy coders on a project for a large Australian bank, there must be fine line between "saving money" and "getting such a sh!t reputation you won't get used again, or be recommended to others"

    I imagine they could (must?) have many, many accountants running models to find the sweet spot, but the damage to the company's reputation mspust be worth something, surely?

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    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Arik on Thursday July 27 2017, @02:39AM

      by Arik (4543) on Thursday July 27 2017, @02:39AM (#544978) Journal
      "the damage to the company's reputation mspust be worth something, surely?"

      Not necessarily. If the company is unknown, or has a poor reputation already, there may not be anything worth protecting.

      Many businesses run on that model, bringing in the income by hook or crook and simply disappearing when things start to catch up. They can often be back in business with a new name before end of the day.
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    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @02:43AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @02:43AM (#544981)

      Didn't you get that memo?

      Make a Bonfire of Your Reputations [warplife.com]

      From the blog of Michael David Crawford, whose reputation is the finest in the universe.

    • (Score: 2) by driverless on Friday July 28 2017, @08:21AM

      by driverless (4770) on Friday July 28 2017, @08:21AM (#545660)

      "getting such a sh!t reputation you won't get used again, or be recommended to others"

      Is that even possible? How badly would a software company have to screw up that they actually go under? Look at any multimillion-dollar IT screwup, they're all still operating. In some cases they even got paid more money to fix up the mess they made. Or at least to continue the disaster.

  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Thursday July 27 2017, @12:24PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Thursday July 27 2017, @12:24PM (#545126) Journal

    They get what they deserve: shit code. They are so blinded by greed that they don't care they are getting fucked right back with garbage code.