India is getting ready to field the country’s most powerful supercomputer to date.  According to a report in The Hindu, the 10-petaflop system will be installed this June, returning India to the upper echelons of supercomputing. The machine is to be jointly hosted by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune and the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting at Noida in Uttar Pradesh. Not surprisingly, the new system will be used mostly for weather modeling, but according to the report, also for non-meteorological research such as protein folding. The Hindu quotes Madhavan Rajeevan, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, who said the bid to select the vendor that will build the machine is ready to go, and they hope to have the computer in place by June.  The Indian government has allocated 400 crore or about $60 million for the project. The upcoming 10-petaflop system promises to propel the nation back into the elite ranks of supercomputing stardom, something it has not enjoyed for a decade. The last time India had a top 10 system on the TOP500 list was 2007, when EKA, an HPC cluster from Hewlett Packard (now HPE) captured the number 4 spot. Learn more at https://www.top500.org/news/india-planning-to-deploy-10-petaflop-supercomputer/