India flips the switch on three homebrew supercomputers

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi yesterday dedicated three new supercomputers, and made the machines a symbol of his economic, social, and industry policies. Those emphases mean Modi didn't detail the tech specs of the three "PARAM Rudra" machines – but the orgs that will run them have revealed some info. India's National …

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Does it have to be the fastest?

No, it has to be able to do the work which it is designed to do.