We often hear developed countries creating revolutionary technologies but if reports are to be believed, India may house the fastest supercomputer by 2017. Reportedly, the Indian government is aiming to build a supercomputer that would be 61 times faster than the one that exists currently. 
Telecom and IT minister, Kapil Sibal shared the charted roadmap with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The document talks about ways to build petaflop and exaflop range of supercomputers. The entire project will cost the Indian government an estimated Rs 4,700 crore. We recently reported that India’s top supercomputer ranks 58th globally in terms of its computing speed.
And if this supercomputer actually becomes reality, then it will be faster than Sequoia by IBM, which is the fastest supercomputer in the world at present. It is said to have a computing speed of 16.32 petaflops. Which means it has the same computing power as combined with over 7.8 lakhs high-end laptops together.
Petaflop is used to measure the processing speed of a computer, which is expressed as a thousand trillion floating point operations per second. Exaflop is one quintillion computer operations per second. Simply put, one exaflop is thousand times faster than one petaflop, Tech 2 reports.
A government official told media, “In his (Sibal's) 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."
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