India will launch brand new 18 petaFLOP supercomputer in 2023. As Kiren Rajiju, Minister of Earth Science announced on May 24th, this supercomputer will be used for weather forecasting institutes secretion in the water.
Much is expected of FLOPs as they are expected to improve weather forecasting at the block level. These supercomputers are also expected to help meteorologists provide a range of higher resolution weather forecasts. Don’t miss, these supercomputers will also be helpful in predicting tornadoes with the highest accuracy along with better weather. Furthermore, FLOP will also provide forecasts for ocean conditions and for scientists to forecast ocean water quality.
What is FLOP?
Floating point math per second, abbreviated as FLOP, is a commonly used metric that measures computing performance – efficiency and processing power, primarily in the development of High Performance Computing (HPC) along with Artificial Intelligence (AI).
M Ravichandran, Secretary, Department of Earth Sciences, issued a statement saying: “We are currently providing forecasts with a resolution of 12 km. The new supercomputer will improve it to a resolution of 6 km. Our goal is to achieve a one-kilometer resolution forecast.” The Minister of Earth Science visited the National Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, or NCMRWF for short, in Noida. He stated that the supercomputer will cost 900 million rupees.
Floating point operations use mathematical operations using fractions and real numbers.
In that sense, how many FLOPs can the computer achieve?
Central processing units and graphics processing units are several types of modern computer systems designed in such a way that they can perform a multitude of operations at the same time, with the help of techniques. parallel processing. This concept greatly increases the number of FLOPs a system can achieve in a given time period. In recent years, computing power has increased dramatically.
What does petaFLOP mean?
Today’s computers have remarkably high computing power. Therefore, FLOP metric is usually expressed in giga (billion), tera (trillion), or PETA (billion billion) operations per second. They can be specified as GFLOP, TELOP, and PFLOP. So what is the petaFLOP metric?
One PetaFLOP is equivalent to one thousand TFLOPs. One petaFLOP can also be said to be equal to 1015 FLOP.
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