The government has drawn a blueprint for developing the next
generation of supercomputers that could be 61 times faster than existing
machines.
Telecom and IT Minister Kapil Sibal is understood to have
written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sharing the roadmap to develop
"petaflop and exaflop range of supercomputers" at an estimated cost
of Rs 4,700 crore over 5 years.
"In his (Sibal) letter, he has said that C-DAC has
developed a proposal with a roadmap to develop a petaflop and exaflop range of
supercomputers in the country with an outlay of Rs 4,700 crore," a
government official said.