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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
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday July 27 2017, @10:02AM (6 children)
They better implement the one-child policy or they will have trouble. China already learnt this.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday July 27 2017, @10:19AM (3 children)
Population is power. Being the most populous nation in the world has its advantages.
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(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday July 27 2017, @10:35AM (2 children)
Like with Africa?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday July 27 2017, @10:48AM (1 child)
Africa ain't a nation/country. But it does have a lot of natural resources and China in particular is moving to help them exploit that wealth. It is expected to add over a billion to the world's population by 2050, and if these people are slightly richer, better educated, packing more smartphones, with better overall health, and getting a cut of resource wealth (as opposed to during colonialism), then yes, Africa will become more powerful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_growth [wikipedia.org]
'Huge' water resource exists under Africa [bbc.com]
Kenya finds '70 year supply' of water in desert region [telegraph.co.uk]
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(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday July 27 2017, @12:23PM
Nations in Africa share many of the same traits. China is definitely moving in to exploit, perhaps not so much else. Adding a billion more people to Africa ain't going to be pretty. If they get rich which they will only be if permitted and history tells otherwise. Better educated seems to be hopes. Smartphones, health etc is all costs that got to be had from some income, re what has been said previously.
The water aquafier under Africa won't last for many people during a long time. It's a really finite resource.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @02:43PM (1 child)
Didn't work in China.
Too many female babies are already aborted or killed in india.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @07:10AM
It may have worked in China. Due to the one-child policy and/or other reasons, fertility declined there.