Wipro Infotech, the India, Middle East and Asia Pacific IT Business Unit of Wipro Ltd . (NYSE: WIT), today announced the launch ofWipro Supernova - a range of Supercomputers and Superstorage in India. Wipro is building Supernova grounds up in India in exclusive partnership with ZRESEARCH, Inc. - a California based organization specialized in commoditizing Supercomputers and Superstorage. Supernova includes a complete range of Supercomputers with an entry level configuration delivering 1 trillion mathematical calculations per second going up to hundred thousand trillions of calculations per second and Superstorage scaling to multiple hundred Petabytes
At the launch, Ashutosh Vaidya, Vice President, Wipro Personal Computing said, "We believe that India is geared to witness the next boom in outsourcing and emerge as the R&D centre of the world. The trend of leveraging India's skills in engineering and industrial design work along with work in animation design, simulation and modeling and bio-informatics is gaining tremendous momentum. For this, customers require access to sustainable and manageable Supercomputing and Superstorage infrastructure. Supernova is an answer to that market need"
Mr. Anand Babu, Co-Founder of Z RESEARCH said, "India is a vital market for us and we are excited to bring supercomputing and Massive Distributed Clustered Storage Technology and Solutions to India by partnering with Wipro. We trust Wipro for their strength in product knowledge, deployment capabilities and support framework in Indian market, while we bring in our domain expertise which has been distilled from years of experience and deployments worldwide at renowned National Laboratories and Fortune 1000 companies."
Wipro Supernova promises to meet faster data crunching and storage needs of high end scientific research labs in defense, geological surveys, biotechnology, animation and other high end design space.