NSM installs petascale supercomputer at IIT Roorkee

Pune: Param Ganga, a petscale supercomputer, has been set up at IIT Roorkee as part of the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST). The system, with a supercomputing capacity of 1.66 petaflops, was designed and commissioned by C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing) under Phase 2 of the manufacturing approach of NASM. As part of the Government’s Make in India initiative, substantial components used to build this system are manufactured and assembled within India with an indigenous software stack developed by C-DAC. The supercomputer will accelerate R&D in multidisciplinary domains of science and engineering, it said.

So far, C-DAC has deployed 11 such systems under Phase 1 and 2 of NSM in institutions across India with a cumulative compute power of over 20 petaflops, the ministry said. In addition, a total of 36,00,000 computational jobs have been successfully completed by about 3600 researchers across the country so far on the NASM system.

NSM, which was announced in 2015, aims to build and deploy 24 facilities with a cumulative compute power of over 64 petaflops.

The supercomputer infrastructure established at various institutions across the country has helped the R&D community to achieve major milestones, objectives and products for scientific and social applications. C-DAC is building an indigenous supercomputing ecosystem in a phased manner, leading to indigenously designed and manufactured supercomputers. It designed and developed a compute server “Rudra” and high-speed interconnect “Trinetra” which are the major sub-assemblies required for supercomputers.

Some of the large-scale applications being developed under NSM include a platform for genomics and drug discovery, urban modelling, early flood warning and prediction systems for India’s river basins and a high-performance computing software suite for seismic imaging. Huh. Oil and gas exploration.

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Originally published at Pen 18