{"id":171710,"date":"2025-05-06T14:50:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T09:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=171710"},"modified":"2025-05-06T14:50:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T09:20:34","slug":"airawat-indias-ai-supercomputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/airawat-indias-ai-supercomputer\/","title":{"rendered":"AIRAWAT\u00a0&#8211; India&#8217;s AI supercomputer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AIRAWAT is India&#8217;s advanced AI supercomputer, specifically engineered for AI and machine learning applications. It ranks 75th among the world&#8217;s top 500 supercomputers. Located at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in Pune, it achieves a peak performance of 13,170 teraflops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key Points:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Purpose:<\/strong>\u00a0AIRAWAT is an AI Research, Analytics, and Knowledge Dissemination Platform, designed to support research, knowledge sharing, and the National Knowledge Network.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a0It&#8217;s installed at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in Pune.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Rank:<\/strong>\u00a0AIRAWAT secured the 75th position in the Top 500 Global Supercomputing List.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>AI-Focused Design:<\/strong>\u00a0The supercomputer is specifically engineered to handle complex AI and machine learning workloads.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Processing Power:<\/strong>\u00a0It boasts a peak performance of 13,170 teraflops (Rpeak).\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Applications:<\/strong>\u00a0AIRAWAT supports diverse research needs, including scientific simulations, climate studies, and drug development, in addition to AI and machine learning.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>National Program on AI:<\/strong>\u00a0AIRAWAT is part of India&#8217;s National Program on AI (NPAI).\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Indigenous Achievement:<\/strong>\u00a0This supercomputer represents a significant milestone in India&#8217;s journey toward building and developing advanced computational systems domestically.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mixed-precision peak compute capacity:<\/strong>\u00a0It has a mixed-precision peak compute capacity of 200 AI petaflops.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Funded by:<\/strong>\u00a0It is funded by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AIRAWAT is India&#8217;s advanced AI supercomputer, specifically engineered for AI and machine learning applications. It ranks 75th among the world&#8217;s top 500 supercomputers. Located at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in Pune, it achieves a peak performance of 13,170 teraflops. Key Points:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":171711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5369],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-171710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-awareness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171712,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171710\/revisions\/171712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171710"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=171710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}