Telangana government demand for Supercomputer– The Telangana government has requested the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) to set up 20 petaflops (20 quadrillion flops, or 20,000 teraflops) of compute capacity in Hyderabad’s proposed artificial intelligence (AI) city under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).
What is Petaflop
It is a term used to describe the speed of supercomputers where ‘flop’ stands for ‘floating point operations per second’.
Under NSM, the Centre plans to build and deploy 24 facilities with cumulative compute power of more than 64 petaflops.