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27 May 2022 Param Porul Supercomputing

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Param Porul, a state-of-the-art supercomputer was inaugurated at NIT Tiruchirappalli under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).
Param Porul Supercomputing Facility has been set up under Phase-II of NSM, most of the components used in it are manufactured and assembled in the country. Also indigenous software stack developed by C-DAC in line with Make in India initiative has also been used in this.

PARAM PORUL systems equipped with a mix of CPU (Central Processing Unit) nodes, GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) nodes, high memory nodes, high throughput storage and high-performance InfiniBand interconnects to meet the computing needs of various scientific and engineering applications Is.
The system utilizes direct contact liquid cooling technology to achieve high power utilization efficiency while reducing operating costs. The Hindu Analysis
Many applications in various scientific domains such as weather and climate, bioinformatics, computational chemistry, molecular dynamics, materials science, computational fluid dynamics and so on have been established by the system for the benefit of researchers.

The National Supercomputing Mission was launched in 2015 to improve the country’s research capabilities by connecting them to a supercomputing grid, with the National Knowledge Network (NKN) acting as the backbone in this area.
The National Supercomputing Mission was launched in the year 2015 to enhance research and capabilities in the country by establishing a supercomputing grid with the National Knowledge Network (NKN).
The NKN project aims to establish a powerful Indian network that would be capable of providing secure and reliable connectivity.
A supercomputer is a computer that performs at or near the highest operating rate currently for a computer.
Construction and implementation of 24 facilities with a cumulative compute power of over 64 petaflops are planned under this mission. The Hindu Analysis
The petaflop is a unit of measurement of the processing speed of a supercomputer, which can be expressed as one thousand trillion floating point operations per second.
It supports the government’s vision of ‘Digital India’ and ‘Make in India’ initiatives.
The mission is being jointly operated by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
It is being implemented by Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune and IISc (Bangalore).

Phase I- It involves assembling supercomputers.
Phase II- Considering manufacturing of certain components within the country.
Phase III- Under this the supercomputer is designed by India.

Under Phase 1 and Phase 2, 15 systems with computer power of 22 petaflops (PF) have been created in IIT’s, C-DAC, NIT, JNCASR and IISER.
NSM installed “Param Ganga” at IIT Roorkee in March 2022 with a supercomputing capacity of 1.66 petaflops as a part of Phase 2.
PARAM Siddhi-AI is India’s fastest supercomputer built under National Supercomputing Mission with a capacity of 5.26 petaflops.
Japan’s Fugaku is the world’s fastest supercomputer.