Petascale Supercomputer “PARAM Ganga” established at IIT Roorkee under National Supercomputing Mission

What is the News?

A Supercomputer named ‘PARAM Ganga’ has been established at IIT Roorkee under National Supercomputing Mission(NSM).

What is PARAM Ganga?

​​PARAM Ganga is a supercomputer designed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing(C-DAC) under Phase 2 of the National Supercomputing Mission(NSM).

It has a supercomputing capacity of 1.66 Petaflops (1 petaflop equals a quadrillion or 1015 operations per second). 

This supercomputer will accelerate the research and development activities with a focus on providing computational power to the user community of IIT Roorkee and neighbouring academic institutions.

What is the National Supercomputing Mission(NSM)?

Launched in: 2015

Aim: To empower national academic and R&D institutions spread over the country by installing a vast supercomputing grid comprising more than 70 high-performance computing facilities.

Nodal Ministries: The mission is being steered jointly by the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeiTY) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST).

Implemented by: Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.

Pillars of the mission:  The four major pillars of the mission are: Infrastructure, Applications, R&D, HRD. These pillars have been functioning efficiently to realise the goal of developing indigenous supercomputing ecosystem of the nation.

Under the mission, C-DAC has designed and developed a computer server “Rudra” and high-speed interconnect “Trinetra” which are the major sub-assemblies required for supercomputers.

Source: This post is based on the article “Petascale Supercomputer “PARAM Ganga” established at IIT Roorkee under National Supercomputing Mission” published in PIB on 8th Mar 2022.