Param Super Computer installed at IIT Roorkee; Know Benefits, Key Features

Param Super Computer: A super computer made in India, ‘PARAM Ganga’ was installed at IIT Roorkee on March 7, 2022. The installation of the super computer was done B.V.R. Mohan Reddy, Chairman of IIT Roorkee.

The Petascale Super Computer has been made in India under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM). The key focus is to supply  computational power to the user section of IIT Roorkee and neighbouring academic center .  

Speaking on the occasion, IIT Roorkee Chairman said, “IIT Roorkee will be  carry out advanced research and capacity building using this supercomputing infrastructure grow  under NSM. “ 

Param Super Computer

• IIT Roorkee had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the the Centre for grow  of Advanced Computing (CDAC) to establish a state-of-the-art Supercomputing facility inculcated critical components.
• PARAM Ganga has a supercomputing space of 1.66 Petaflops (Peta Floating-Point Operations Per Second. 
• The super computer has been designed and order by C-DAC below  Phase 2 of the build approach of the NSM.
• The substantial components utilized to build the super computer were manufactured and assembled in India along with an indigenous software stack grow  by C-DAC

Significance

The establishment of Param, made in India super computer  is a great step towards the Make in India initiative of the Indian authority .

Overall, the installation of supercomputer support at various Institutes has support the R&D section to achieve great objectives and milestones and thousands of computing jobs have as well as been created. 

National Supercomputing Mission

The National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) is a joint initiative of the Department of Science and robotic  (DST) and the Ministry of Electronics and details robotic (MeitY). It is being implemented by the Centre for growth of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. 

 

The four major pillars of the National Supercomputing Mission include:

1. Infrastructure
2. Applications
3. Research and Development
4. HRD

The C-DAC has been entrusted with the responsibility to design, develop, deploy and commission supercomputing systems in India.

The NSM mission plans to build and deploy 24 supercomputing facilities in India with cumulative compute power of more than 64 Petaflops. 

 

C-DAC has till now plant 11 such complex at IISc, IITs, IISER Pune, JNCASR, NABI-Mohali and C-DAC below NSM Phase-1 and Phase-2. These complex have a cumulative compute power of more than 20 Petaflops.