India's Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) has contracted a local manufacturer to build the designed-in-India servers for a future supercomputer project. The manufacturer is called VVDN Technologies and last week it announced it's been selected to build servers for India's PARAM supercomputers.

CDAC plans to build 24 supers and has deployed 11 to date. Although, the supers to which it contributes may not be very super; the Rudra server a commodity server, not a screamer that puts India or VVDN on the leading edge, nor are the node counts involved in past Indian HPC efforts notable by global standards.

The contract is therefore not likely to advance India's goal of demonstrating it can serve as an alternative source of offshore server manufacturing capacity to anyone spooked by recent supply chain hiccups caused by COVID and geopolitics.