World's Fastest Computer. ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) has built a supercomputer (SAGA-2020), which will be India's fastest in terms of theoretical peak performance of 220 Teraflops ( 200 Trillion Floating Point Operations per second ). Named Satish Dhawan Super-computing Facility, it is located at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) in Thiruvananthapuram. The new graphic processing unit ( GPU ) based supercomputer, which has been named SAGA-2020 ( Super-computer for Aerospace with GPU Architecture-220 Teraflops), would be used for solving complex aerospace problems.
The supercomputer was fully designed and built by the VSSC, using commercially available hardware and open source software components. Its total cost was about Rs. 14 crores. The system is environmentally green and consumes a power of only 150kw.
