Meanwhile, Prof. Moona does not look like the man who will sit on this year's laurels. He has already pinned a goal of crossing beyond the half petaflop a second boundary and to get critical projects approved by government or to crack computational power across thousands petaflops. "We have to come up on the Top Global lists consistently, and we will." He confidently looks on. More muscle or more weight-lifting with applications, no matter what one aspires, it turns out there's more to being a superhero. And then, there's always that Chuck Norris or Rajnikanth level to gun for, if only our supercomputers can match them some day. It's no use giving up yet, is it?Skills, talent adequacy, professional interest, ecosystem and government support are some of the gaps that haunt even today's supercomputers and HPC flights. Chief among them is the way domain expertise has stayed miles away from dating supercomputing power. If only a scientist or a weather expert or a security officer could marry his/her depth/grip of that area with brutal force of a supercomputer, then imagination is indeed the limit.Supercomputers and application-sides have to come together, Prof.Moona rues. "Indian weather patterns or monsoon models are different than what the world uses and that needs a unique approach and depth to the problem. A lot of experts need their own weather models here. We can manage a disaster recovery situation or a natural fiasco so much better if we can embed flood patterns super computational way. We can do so much more with molecular simulators or large databases, the same way." Plus, we need applications, people, domain knowledge and skills to come together. "That coming-together is sadly not happening and efforts are not commensurate with the gaps we face." He adds.Tadigadapa highlights that building capabilities and skills in a true sense has become more crucial than before. "We work with resources and institutions to build supercomputing ecosystem strongly and try to train students and faculties in a widespread way through many collaborations and initiatives." A lot has been done and a lot is laid cut out for future. India still has a long way to go, as Prof. Uday Bondhugula, Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore seconds too. "The reasons are no different than those that are cited as being the reasons for India lagging behind the US, Europe, China, and Japan in science and research in general. Meanwhile, Prof. Moona does not look like the man who will sit on this year's laurels. He has already pinned a goal of crossing beyond the half petaflop a second boundary and to get critical projects approved by government or to crack computational power across thousands petaflops. "We have to come up on the Top Global lists consistently, and we will." He confidently looks on. More muscle or more weight-lifting with applications, no matter what one aspires, it turns out there's more to being a superhero. And then, there's always that Chuck Norris or Rajnikanth level to gun for, if only our supercomputers can match them some day. It's no use giving up yet, is it?Skills, talent adequacy, professional interest, ecosystem and government support are some of the gaps that haunt even today's supercomputers and HPC flights. Chief among them is the way domain expertise has stayed miles away from dating supercomputing power. If only a scientist or a weather expert or a security officer could marry his/her depth/grip of that area with brutal force of a supercomputer, then imagination is indeed the limit.Supercomputers and application-sides have to come together, Prof.Moona rues. "Indian weather patterns or monsoon models are different than what the world uses and that needs a unique approach and depth to the problem. A lot of experts need their own weather models here. We can manage a disaster recovery situation or a natural fiasco so much better if we can embed flood patterns super computational way. We can do so much more with molecular simulators or large databases, the same way." Plus, we need applications, people, domain knowledge and skills to come together. "That coming-together is sadly not happening and efforts are not commensurate with the gaps we face." He adds.Tadigadapa highlights that building capabilities and skills in a true sense has become more crucial than before. "We work with resources and institutions to build supercomputing ecosystem strongly and try to train students and faculties in a widespread way through many collaborations and initiatives." A lot has been done and a lot is laid cut out for future. India still has a long way to go, as Prof. Uday Bondhugula, Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore seconds too. "The reasons are no different than those that are cited as being the reasons for India lagging behind the US, Europe, China, and Japan in science and research in general. Submit