Why it is in the news
On 4 October 2026, the Press Information Bureau (PIB) released a backgrounder, "India's Rising Supercomputing Ecosystem", on the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) run jointly by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). It reports that, as of September 2026, the NSM has deployed 40 supercomputers with a combined capacity of 68 petaflops (PF), and sets out the next targets of the mission.
The exam angle
Issue: Can India convert a wide, indigenously assembled HPC network into frontier-scale and sovereign computing capability?