National Supercomputing Mission reaches 40 supercomputers with 68 petaflops of capacity
Key facts
- As of September 2026, 40 supercomputers had been deployed under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).
- Their combined capacity is 68 petaflops. Thirteen of them are high-end systems above 1 petaflop.
- The Mission plans 50 supercomputers with more than 123 petaflops in total.
- About 6,000 indigenous Rudra servers run in PARAM Rudra supercomputers; 1,500 more are being made.
Why it matters
[Data] NSM was launched in April 2015 with an outlay of about ₹4,500 crore. It is steered jointly by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and MeitY. C-DAC Pune and IISc Bengaluru implement it. India's journey began with C-DAC's PARAM 8000 in 1991. The Rudra servers show the shift from assembling imports to building indigenous hardware. This is GS-3 science and technology and Aatmanirbhar Bharat material.
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