PARAM Ganga, a supercomputer with a supercomputing capacity of 1.66 Petaflops has been installed at IIT Roorkee as a part of the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) by MeiTY and the Department of Science and Technology (DST).
The whole system is designed and specially made by C-DAC in its Phase 2 plan to expand and continue step toward the mission of the ‘Make In India’ plan of the government. The National Supercomputing Mission, which is guided and controlled jointly by
- Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeiTY)
- Department of Science and Technology (DST)
- Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune
- Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru
To empower national academic and R&D institutions to extend over the nation by installing a vast supercomputing network comprising of over 70 high-performance computing facilities. And to strengthen the four pillars of the NSM which are infrastructure, applications, R&D, HRD to develop a home-grown supercomputing ecosystem of the country.
The infrastructure of supercomputer installed at different Institutes across the nation facilitate the R&D group of  people to achieve key landmark, objectives, and products for scientific and societal applications.
The supercomputer infrastructure installed at different Institutes across the country has facilitated the R&D community to achieve major milestones, objectives, and products for scientific and societal applications.
According to the ministry, a total of 36,00,000 computational jobs have been effectively completed by approximately 3,600 researchers in India on the NSM.
Build up an indigenous supercomputing ecosystem
Now the key focus of India is to build indigenous supercomputers from 2021 onwards with the target to set up around 45 petaflops of high-performance computing capacity in the nation.
 C-DAC’s design and development of the high-speed interconnect “Trinetra” and compute server “Rudra” which are the most important and major sub-assemblies essential for supercomputers.
Under the make in India approach, C-DAC is continuously building an indigenous supercomputing ecosystem in a phased manner and leading to domestic designed and manufactured supercomputers.
NSM has already started the process of designing and developing components such as processor server board, interconnect, system software libraries, storage, etc. simultaneously it is also expected that India may soon have the motherboards and sub-systems manufactured locally.
PARAM Ganga, supercomputer
In this regards the installation of PARAM Ganga, by B.V.R. Mohan Reddy, Chairman, Board of Governors, IIT Roorkee, will speed up the research and development activities in interdisciplinary fields of science and engineering community of IIT Roorkee and other academic institutions.
The new high-performance computational (HPC) feature and configuration of the “PARAM Ganga” supercomputer would help researchers to solve difficult problems of national importance and global significance.
The environment of high-performance computational of PARAM Ganga supercomputer will enhance more to the modern-day research. HPC software is also suited for seismic activity which is relating to earthquakes or other vibrations of the earth and its crust and MPPLAB: Telecom Network Optimization.
Published By:Â Apoorva Wakodikar
Edited By: Subbuthai Padma
