As of 12th August 2025, 37 supercomputers with a total computing power of 40 Petaflops have been installed under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).

These systems are set up in leading institutions like IISc, IITs, C-DAC, R&D Labs and also in several academic institutions and research organisation in the Tier-II and Tier-III cities across the country. 

The systems are being used efficiently, with most running at over 85% capacity and many exceeding 95%. These supercomputers have supported over 10,000 researchers, including more than 1,700 PhD scholars from over 200 academic and research institutions. 

They have played a key role in advancing research in areas such as drug discovery, disaster management, energy security, climate modelling, astronomy, computational chemistry, fluid dynamics, and materials research. 

More than one (01) crore compute jobs have been completed, and as a result over 1,500 research papers have been published in reputed journals. Startups and MSMEs are also using these systems to boost their HPC-based projects.

NSM was initiated in April 2015 by the Government of India with a budget outlay of Rs.4,500 crore. Its vision is to achieve self-reliance and global leadership in supercomputing by giving access of state-of-the-art supercomputing facilities to researchers, addressing grand challenges, optimizing investments, and enhancing global competitiveness in key areas of supercomputing technologies.

The NSM is being jointly implemented by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST) through Centre for Development of Advanced Computing(C-DAC), Pune and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. The mission is currently extended till 31st December, 2025.

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