'Annapurna', a factory integrated India's seventh fastest High Performance Computation cluster, was inaugurated at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc) here today.

Atomic Energy Commission Chairman and Secretary of Department of Atomic Energy, Srikumar Banerjee, inaugurated the 1.5 Tera Byte (TB) memory, 30 TB storage space cluster and lauded the technical team behind the effort for creating the super computer in a completely non-commercial domain.

He said in the absence of a supercomputer, complex issues ranging from biological applications and others would not have been approached and in that sense 'we can use this machine for topical interests.'

'Among broad-based scientific institutions in India, the Annapurna cluster is the third fastest, ranking below the IISc Bangalore and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai,' an IMSc release said.

It will be used in simulations and numerical calculations, in the areas of statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics among others, it added.