India, Jan. 23 -- There is Hopper. There is an Octopus. There is IceCore. There is Marvin. There is Satyameba. There is Param Rudra. These are not star students strolling across a university campus, but star machines powering those students, their professors, and entire research ecosystems.

The world of exascale simulations, GPU clusters, and high-performance computing is blossoming in new colours and scales across universities, laboratories, and space-tech projects everywhere.

Recently, the European Space Agency unveiled the ESA Space High-Performance Computing (HPC) environment, now available to support scientific research and technological development across all ESA programmes. The ESA Space HPC supercomputer, inaugurated at ESRIN in...