PARAM Ganga, A Made in India Petascale Supercomputer has install at IIT Roorkee by B.V.R. Mohan Reddy, Chairman, Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee. The installation of 1.66 PFLOPS (Peta Floating-Point Operations Per Second) supercomputing at IIT Roorkee by the Centre for Development of Advance Computing (CDAC) has built under the approach of the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).
The main focus is 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).
IIT Roorkee had sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the CDAC earlier to establish a state-of-the-art Supercomputing facility involving critical components such as motherboards for servers, direct contact liquid cooling data centres are manufacture in India progressing towards the Government of India initiative of “Atmanirbhar Bharat.”
B.V.R. Mohan Reddy Said :
“IIT Roorkee will carry out advance research and capacity building using this supercomputing infrastructure develope under NSM. I am happy to see that the critical components of PARAM Ganga, such as motherboards for compute nodes and direct contact liquid cooling data centres, are manufacture in India as per the Government of India initiative of Atmanirbhar Bharat.”
Dr Darbari Said :
“The basic idea behind building a Petascale Supercomputer with manufacture in India components is to lead the path towards Aatmanirbhar Bharat and accelerate the problem-solving capacity in multidisciplinary domains simultaneously. To this effect, “PARAM Ganga”, the new high-performance computational (HPC) facility would aid researchers to solve complex problems of national importance and global significance.”
This new HPC infrastructure will serve as an essential compute environment for the modern-day research along with their theoretical and experimental work.
