Saloni Gusain | Updated: Jun 2, 2022 21:58 IST
On 30th May 2022, the Government of India installed PARAM Ananta Supercomputer at IIT Gandhinagar. It was developed indigenously. The computer can compute at 838 teraflops, hence the name. Teraflops is is defined as a speed of computer equal to one million million floating point operations per second (FLOPS). In simple words, the computer can do 838 lakh crore calculations per seconds. Isn’t that impressive?
“The state-of-the-art supercomputer Param Infinite was dedicated to the nation under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) at IIT Gandhinagar.”- Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
| Name | PARAM Ananta Supercomputer |
| Date of launch | 30th May 2022 |
| Place of commission | IIT Gandhinagar |
| Mission | National Supercomputing Mission |
| Mission by | Department of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology |
| Official website | dst.gov.in/ meity.gov.in/ |
| Feature | can compute at 838 teraflops |
| Benefit | Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine learning and Data Science, Bio Engineering, Gene Sequencing, etc. |
On 12th October, 2020, IIT Gandhinagar signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Center for Advanced Computing Development (C-DAC) to develop the supercomputer under the Phase 2 of the National Supercomputing Mission. Now, we all know the result. A superfast computer at the institute. This is a huge feat for the country.
The Param AnantaSupercomputer is mix of CPU nodes, high memory nodes, GPU nodes, high storage and high performance.
The Group Coordinator and Scientist in the Ministry of Electronics and IT, Sunita Verma, informed that 60% of capacity of the supercomputer will be for IIT Gandhinagar. The remaining will be used by the educational institutions for research and development. Besides Param Ananta, there are 12 supercomputers in India. They are located in institutes like IIIT Roorkee, IIR Kharagpur, and Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune.
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An interesting fact is that majority of the parts used in the manufacture of Param Ananta are made in India. This sets a great example for the Make in India initiative. Other than the energy usage, the supercomputer will be an aid in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine learning and Data Science, Bio Engineering, Gene Sequencing, etc.
Given below is a list of all the previous Param supercomputers.
| Name | Year |
|---|---|
| Param 8000 | August 1991 |
| Param 8600 | 1992 |
| Param 9000 | 1994 |
| Param 1000 | 1998 |
| Param Padma | December 2002 |
| Param Yuva | November 2008 |
| Param Yuva II | February 2013 |
| Param Ishan | September 2016 |
| Param Brahma | – |
| Param Siddhi AI | – |
| Param Pravega | January 2022 |
| Param Sanganak | – |
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The PARAM infinite Supercomputer was commissioned at IIT Kharagpur.
PARAM Ananta supercomputer was launched on the 30th of May 2022.
The PARAM infinite Supercomputer can compute at 838 teraflops. It is a mix of CPU nodes, high memory nodes, GPU nodes, high storage and high performance.
The Param infinite supercomputer was built under the National Supercomputing Mission.
Some other Param supercomputers include Param 8000, Param 8600, Param 9000, Param 1000, Param Padma, Param Yuva, Param Yuva II, Param Ishan, etc.