India has successfully entered the top ten rankings of the world's fastest supercomputers for the first time, with the installation of the Hewlett-Packard Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c system achieving a performance of 117.9 teraflop/s. The country's supercomputing journey began in the late 1980s with the indigenously built Param 8000 and has since advanced significantly, including the development of multiple high-performance systems like Param Yuva II and Eka. Plans for future development include a commitment of $2.5 billion by the Indian government for supercomputing research, aiming to create an exaflop-range supercomputer and establish a grid of over 70 systems across major educational and research institutions.
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