Petascale Supercomputer Param Shakti inaugurated at IIT Kharagpur

Petascale Supercomputer Param Shakti was inaugurated at IIT Kharagpur under National Supercomputing Mission.

Petascale Supercomputer Param Shakti was inaugurated at IIT Kharagpur. It is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and the Department of Science and Technology.

The supercomputer was inaugurated on March 27, 2022, by Jagdeep Dhankhar, Governor, West Bengal.

"PARAM Shakti supercomputing facility is accelerating the research and development activities in multidisciplinary domains of computational and data sciences as it provides large-scale computing power to the user community of IIT Kharagpur and neighbouring academic and R&D institutes," said the official statement.

MoU was inked in 2019 to establish Supercomputer Param Shakti 

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between IIT Kharagpur and the Centre for Development in Advanced Computing (CDAC) in March 2019 to establish this state of the art Supercomputing Facility with 17680 CPU cores along with 44 GPUs.

This facility has pioneered in using RDHX based efficient cooling system to obtain a high power usage effectiveness. This system has been tested considerably by both IIT Kharagpur and CDAC for commercial, open-source and in-house software pertaining to diversified applications.

IIT Kharagpur has been following the mandate of NSM towards the development of computationally efficient software for supercomputing platforms and applications for large-scale industrial and scientific problems.

IIT Kharagpur is also one of the NSM nodal centres for training in HPC and AI and working on development manpower required for the Supercomputing Research across the nation. This centre has been organizing courses, workshops, bootcamps etc. in various domains pertaining to fundamentals of supercomputing and data sciences and their application to diversified fields including Agriculture, Astronomy, Biology, Mechanical Engineering, Material Sciences etc, added the official statement.

This Supercomputing facility is expected to provide a major boost to the research and development initiatives in Indian academia and industries to reach a position of global esteem.

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