View from India: Crystal ball gazing into new digital realities

India is gearing up for the next generation computers. This move also reinforces the Digital India and Make in India vision of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Government of India (GoI) has launched the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) to connect the national academia with research institutes. With its peak computing power and high memory compute nodes supercomputers are expected to open out new avenues of scientific research and innovation. The first phase of NSM has already begun.