India’s AI supercomputer Param Siddhi ranks 63rd in TOP500 most powerful non-distributed computer systems in the world

Param Siddhi, the high performance computing-artificial intelligence (HPC-AI) supercomputer established under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) at C-DAC has has been ranked at the 63rd position in TOP 500 list of most powerful non-distributed computer systems in the world.
Besides this, two other Indian supercomputers have also found place in the list. They are Pratyush (78) and Mihir (145).
The 2020 update is the 56th edition of the TOP500.
Japanese supercomputer ‘Fugaku’ is the world’s most powerful supercomputer, since June 2020.
The TOP500 list is a project that ranks 500 most powerful non-distributed computer systems in the world since 1993, to provide a reliable basis for tracking and detecting trends in high-performance computing.
The updated list of the supercomputers are published twice a year. The first of these updates always coincides with the International Supercomputing Conference in June, and the second is presented at the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference in November.
The ranking is based on HPL, a portable implementation of the high-performance LINPACK benchmark written in Fortran for distributed-memory computers.
China currently dominates the list with 229 supercomputers, followed by United States with 121 supercomputers.