New supercomputer ‘PARAM Ganga’ installed at IIT Roorkee

The Centre for Development in Advanced Computing (C-DAC) has been entrusted the responsibility to design, develop, deploy and commission the supercomputing systems. 

A new supercomputer "PARAM Ganga" with a supercomputing capacity of 1.66 PFLOPS ((Peta Floating-Point Operations Per Second) has been deployed at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) to accelerate research and development in multidisciplinary domains of science and engineering. 

The institute said the facility will provide computational power to the user community of IIT Roorkee and neighbouring academic institutions. It is a joint venture of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). It said, “The critical components such as motherboards for servers, Direct Contact Liquid Cooling Data Centres are manufactured in India progressing towards the Government of India initiative of Atmanirbhar Bharat.” 

It will provide big boost to research activities: IIT Roorkee Director

BVR Mohan Reddy, Chairman, Board of Governors, IIT Roorkee, said, “IIT Roorkee will carry out advanced research and capacity building using this supercomputing infrastructure developed under the NSM.” IIT Roorkee Director Prof Ajit K Chaturvedi said, "National Supercomputing Mission was launched in India in 2015 with an objective to establish state-of-the-art facilities to foster advanced research in compute power hungry areas. Under this mission, IIT Roorkee and the Centre for Development in Advanced Computing (C-DAC) have joined hands to make PARAM Ganga possible. It will provide a big boost to the research activities of IIT Roorkee in many different areas." 

C-DAC has been entrusted the responsibility to design, develop, deploy and commission the supercomputing systems under the build approach of mission. The mission plans to build and deploy 24 facilities with cumulative compute power of more than 64 Petaflops. 

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