PARAM GANGA

The National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) has deployed PARAM Ganga-a High-Performance Computational (HPC) facility at IIT Roorkee, with a supercomputing capacity of 1.66 Petaflops.
Earlier, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru installed the supercomputer ‘ParamPravega’.
It has been established by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) under the approach of NSM.
The basic idea behind building a Petascale Supercomputer with manufactured in India components is to lead the path towards Aatmanirbhar Bharat and accelerate the problem-solving capacity in multidisciplinary domains simultaneously.
It will aid researchers to solve complex problems of national importance and global significance.
It will serve as an essential computer environment for the modern-day research along with their theoretical and experimental work.
The focus is to provide computational power to the user community of IIT Roorkee and neighbouring academic institutions.

Supercomputer

A supercomputer is a computer that performs at or near the currently highest operational rate for computers.
Generally, PETAFLOP is a measure of a Supercomputer’s processing speed and can be expressed as a thousand trillion floating point operations per second.
FLOPS (floating point operations per second) are typically used to measure the performance of a computer’s processor.
Using floating-point encoding, extremely long numbers can be handled relatively easily.
Supercomputers are primarily designed to be used in enterprises and organizations that require massive computing power.
For example: weather forecasting, scientific research, intelligence gathering and analysis, data mining etc.
Globally, China has the maximum number of supercomputers and maintains the top position in the world, followed by the US, Japan, France, Germany, Netherlands, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
India’s first supercomputer was PARAM 8000.
PARAM Shivay, the first supercomputer assembled indigenously, was installed in IIT (BHU), followed by PARAM Shakti, PARAM Brahma, PARAM Yukti, PARAMSanganak at IIT-Kharagpur, IISER, Pune, JNCASR, Bengaluru and IIT Kanpur respectively.
In 2020, PARAM Siddhi, the High-Performance Computing-Artificial Intelligence (HPC-AI) supercomputer, achieved global ranking of 62nd in Top 500 most powerful supercomputer systems in the world.

SOURCE: THE HINDU,THE ECONOMIC TIMES,MINT

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