A Made in India Petascale Supercomputer PARAM Ganga has been installed at IIT Roorkee with a supercomputing capacity of 1.66 PFLOPS (Peta Floating-Point Operations Per Second).
The availability of PARAM Ganga will accelerate the research and development activities in multidisciplinary domains of science and engineering with a focus to provide computational power to the user community of IIT Roorkee and neighbouring academic institutions.
It is a joint initiative of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
MeitY said, “The system is designed and commissioned by C-DAC under Phase 2 of the build approach of the NSM. Substantial components utilised to build this system are manufactured and assembled within India along with an indigenous software stack developed by C-DAC, which is a step towards the 'Make in India' initiative of the government.”
The establishment at IIT Roorkee has been built under the approach of the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) and implemented by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc).
The Mission plans to build and deploy 24 facilities with cumulative compute power of more than 64 Petaflops. Till now, C-DAC has deployed 11 systems at IISc, IITs, IISER Pune, JNCASR, NABI-Mohali and C-DAC under NSM Phase-1 and Phase-2 with a cumulative compute power of more than 20 Petaflops.
The four major pillars of the NSM, namely, Infrastructure, Applications, R&D, HRD, have been functioning efficiently to realise the goal of developing indigenous supercomputing eco system of the nation.
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