Supercomputer PARAM Ganga

The National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) has deployed ‘PARAM Ganga’, a supercomputer at IIT Roorkee, with a supercomputing capacity of 1.66 Petaflops. The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) has designed and commissioned a supercomputer named “PARAM Ganga”, at IIT Roorkee.

About super computer program

1. The Substantial components used to build PARAM Ganga system have been 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 Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeiTY).
2. The NSM,  MeiTY along with the Department of Science and Technology (DST) initiated the program and implemented by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), is progressing significantly in the right direction.
3. 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 user community of IIT Roorkee and neighbouring academic institutions, it added.
4. C-DAC has been entrusted with the responsibility for design, development, deployment and commissioning of the supercomputing systems under the build approach of Mission.

What is National Supercomputing Mission (NSM)?

NSM is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeiTY) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST).

All the missions are implemented by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.

The total aim of  NSM is to build and deploy 24 facilities with cumulative compute power of more than 64 Petaflops.

As on date 11 systems have been deployed by C-DAC at IISc, IITs, IISER Pune, JNCASR, NABI-Mohali and C-DAC under NSM Phase-1 and Phase-2 with a cumulative computing power of more than 20 Petaflops.

The supercomputer infrastructure installed at various Institutes across the country has helped the R&D community to achieve major milestones, objectives and products for scientific and societal applications.

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