EXASCALE COMPUTING
ET Startup Awards 2026: Deeptech wants government to step up as the first customer
At the discussion, titled ‘Building the Hard Stuff in India’, moderated by Accel partner Prashanth Prakash, founders from the space, semiconductor and healthtech sectors discussed the challenges of building capital-intensive technologies, developing domestic capabilities and taking complex products to market.
French supercomputer maker Bull doubles output to boost Europe's AI ambitions
Bull, the French supercomputer manufacturer, has expanded its factory to double production capacity to meet growing orders. The European Union is investing heavily in supercomputing, committing €7 billion to improve capabilities. France's order for a supercomputer is significant, as Bull aims to deliver systems more efficiently.
Meet Thomas Zacharia, the man behind the machines powering AI
Thomas Zacharia, a Keralite, revolutionized global computing. He championed GPUs for supercomputers, leading to breakthroughs like Titan. His work paved the way for modern AI. Zacharia later oversaw Summit and Frontier, the first exascale supercomputer. Now at AMD, he builds AI systems, including the energy-efficient Helios platform. His journey reshaped an industry.
AMD bets big on India’s AI ambitions with Helios; open ecosystem push
Senior VP Thomas Zacharia outlines roadmap spanning exascale computing, PPPs, & deeper India engagement.
India–Europe push joint AI ecosystem to cut US, China dependence
Europe and India are aligning to build a sovereign and sustainable AI stack that reduces reliance on US and Chinese technology, with deeper collaboration across infrastructure, chips, software and manufacturing, Emmanuel Le Roux, head and CEO of France-based advanced computing firm Bull, told ET.
Year in Review: India’s tech sector saw major policy shifts, deep-tech push in 2025
Among the highlights of the year were reforms across research funding, data governance, and new technologies. AI, cybersecurity, and online platforms attracted tighter oversight.
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India accelerates to exascale: NSM 2.0 targets pre-exascale supercomputer by 2027-28
India's National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) has achieved key milestones under phase 1, deploying 37 indigenous supercomputers totalling 39 petaflops across institutions, with 10 more systems slated for completion by March 2026 using the homegrown Rudra servers. With this, the total compute power will become 95 petaflops, NSM mission director Hemant Darbari told ET.
India eyes fully indigenous supercomputing systems by 2030: ISM chief
Outlining how India’s push in electronics manufacturing and semiconductors is now extending deep into the supercomputing ecosystem, India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) chief executive Amitesh Kumar Sinha noted that electronics production has grown sixfold over the past decade, while exports have risen eight times.
C-DAC eyeing exascale leap by 2030 via supercomputing mission 2.0
The Union cabinet is expected to approve a new outlay significantly higher than the Rs 4,500 crore for NSM 1.0, CDAC Bengaluru executive director SD Sudarsan said. Internal proposals and technical specifications for exascale targets are being prepared, he added.
AI, cloud companies among 50 China entities in US export blacklist
Companies from Taiwan, Iran, Pakistan, South Africa and United Arab Emirates also were included in the roughly 80 companies added to the "entity list" of the commerce department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). Six are subsidiaries of the Inspur Group, China's leading cloud computing and big data service provider which was listed in the US government's entity list in 2023.
NASA's chief scientist Katherine Calvin terminated: Who is she? Check details
NASA layoffs: NASA has announced layoffs and its chief scientist Dr Katherine Calvin has also been terminated. The NASA layoffs may signal a shift away from research and toward exploration since both Trump and SpaceX founder Elon Musk support a human mission to Mars. Katherine Calvin is also a renowned climatologist who has contributed to key UN climate reports.
View: Limiting energy consumption in AI is vital — look to the frugal human brain for pathways
Investments in AI startups are rising, but so is their power consumption. Data centers could use 4% of global electricity by 2026. Powering AI demand also has significant water usage. Efforts to optimize AI energy consumption include using efficient hardware, cloud services, and advanced cooling techniques. Neuromorphic computing offers a promising energy-efficient alternative.
PM Modi to inaugurate high-performance computing system for weather research at IITM
The new high-power computing systems -- named 'Arka' and 'Arunika' -- are expected to significantly enhance the accuracy and lead time of predictions related to tropical cyclones, heavy precipitation, thunderstorms, hailstorms, heat waves, droughts, and other critical weather phenomena.
Centre launches Digital India future LABS for R&D in automotive, compute, other areas
The government on Saturday launched the Digital India future labs to strengthen domestic research and development (R&D) as well as innovation in automotive, computing, communication, strategic electronics, industrial electronics, and internet-of-things.
India should embrace AI’s potential while ensuring safety: Rajeev Chandrasekhar
“I am concerned, as most of us should be concerned, that governments when they react, tend to overreact,” he said, addressing the third day of the Carnegie Global Technology Summit on Wednesday.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang touts India as major AI market in bid to hedge China risks
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang visited India on a business-focused trip, recognizing the country's potential as an alternative electronics manufacturing base and source of AI talent. India's subsidies to develop chip manufacturing infrastructure and its ambitions to boost electronics manufacturing align with Nvidia's goals.
Quantum computing, next big focus for 'Digital India': Arvind Krishna to ETILC Members
The rapid adoption of exponential tech like AI, ML, IoT, and Cloud computing along with the overhaul of business operating models continues will propel the Indian economy forward.
Top academic institutes sign MoUs for establishing supercomputing infrastructure in India
The Rs 4,500-crore mission envisages empowering our national academic and R&D institutions to spread over the country by installing a vast supercomputing grid comprising more than 70 high-performance computing facilities, an official statement said.
Atos and C-DAC to work together on quantum computing, AI and exascale computing
C-DAC, which is a part of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, GoI, is already working with Atos on the National Supercomputing Mission.
India, France conclude pathbreaking roadmap on digital technology partnership
France and India recognise the shared responsibility of a wide variety of actors, in their respective roles, to improve trust, security and stability in cyberspace.
Countries must dismantle terror hubs: India, France
Both nations plan a project for reinforcing assets to combat piracy and all other maritime trafficking in the southern Indian Ocean.
US blacklists 5 Chinese groups working in supercomputing
The Commerce Department called their activities "contrary to the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States."
Strategic necessity: India is seeking to become a chip design hub
China, for example, is building a homegrown chip programme, eyeing adoption of local semiconductors in 70% of its products by 2025, up from 16% currently.
World's most powerful supercomputer unveiled
US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)supercomputer called Summit will be eight times more powerful than its previous top-ranked system, Titan.
China maintains reign over world supercomputer rankings: Survey
Supercomputers are vital tools for advanced scientific work because of their ability to perform rapid calculations for everything from weather forecasts to missile development.
China starts developing new-era exascale supercomputer
The aim is to make the computer, which will be capable of a quintillion calculations per second, by 2020, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
China planning new supercompute more powerful than its Tianhe-1A
The National Supercomputer Centre in Tianjin will release a prototype in 2017 or 2018 of an "exascale" computer.
Government plans fastest supercomputer by 2017
The government has drawn a blueprint for developing the next generation of supercomputers that could be 61 times faster than existing machines.
Breakthrough technology to enable much faster computing
A new chip technology that integrates electrical and optical devices on the same silicon bit, would enable smaller, faster and more power-efficient chips than is possible with conventional ones.
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