Issues on High Performance Computing in India
A symposium on HPC Applications was held in IIT Kanpur on 12-14 March 2012. It had around 100 participants with speakers from various disciplines. We had a panel discussion on future of HPC in India. Minutes of the Panel discussion of the Symposium on HPC Applications are given below: Panelists: Rajat Moona (CDAC, Moderator), P. B. Sunil Kumar (IITM), Amalendu Chandra (IITK), Sanjay Mittal (IITK), K. G. Ayappa (IISc), M. K. Verma (IITK) Many important points arose during the meeting by the panelists and participants. Main points are listed below: 1. Manpower: We do not have enough number of trained manpower for maintaining systems, writing programs, and HPC research. The students are not sufficiently exposed to advances in computational tools. Only formal course in this field in India is M. Tech. in "Computational Science" offered by IISc. More institutes in the country should run such programs. IIT Madras is offering a ...