30-year-old NRI Assistant Professor Dr Srinidhi Varadarajan has amazed the computing industry by putting together the world’s third-fastest supercomputer. Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan who is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech achieved this feat in a record time of three months and a cost of only $5.2 million. He was heading a group of scientists and students at the university to build this super-computer.
This achievement has impressed the industry experts for the low cost and the record speed at which it was reached. Most machines of this class cost upward of $40 million and take years to assemble. Japan’s Earth Simulator, the number one supercomputer, is said to have cost at least $350 million.
The cost at Virginia Tech was kept low by Varadarajan and his team by using hundreds of student volunteers, who were paid only in soda and pizza for assembling the cluster in less than a month.
Dr Srinidhi Varadarajan has already achieved significant milestones during his career. He was honored with the NSF Career Award in 2002 for "Weaving a Code Tapestry: A Compiler Directed Framework for Scalable Network Emulation." He has focused his research on building a distributed network emulation system that can scale to emulate hundreds of thousands of virtual nodes.
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