PARAM SHIVAYE - Supercomputers rise in Developing India

PARAM SHIVAYE- Developing India

The first Supercomputer designed and built under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) by C-DAC at Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi was dedicated by Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi to the scientific and research community of the nation in order to strengthen the research and development activities in the country.



NAMED AS PARAM SHIVAYE

WHAT IS SUPER COMPUTER? 

supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instructions per second (MIPS).

ABOUT PARAM SHIVAYE-

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday inaugurated 'Param Shivay' Supercomputer of 833 teraflop capacity built at the cost of Rs 32.5 crore under the National Super Computing Mission at IIT-BHU.

This initiative supports the vision of the government's 'Digital India' and 'Make in India' and it will also play an important role in keeping India in the forefront of the world's supercomputing map. The research that takes months would be completed in hours or minutes with the help of this supercomputer."

“PARAM Shivay”, the supercomputer uses more than one lakh twenty thousand compute cores (CPU + GPU cores) to offer a peak compute power of 833 TeraFlops.

This supercomputing will benefit the faculty members, scientists and research students of IIT -BHU and the university. Apart from this, scientists, teachers and research students, government research laboratories in adjacent engineering colleges of Eastern UP, the projects will be given 40 per cent computer power and the students of Navodaya Vidyalaya will be familiarized with basic supercomputing. The problems of common man related to relevant social issues such as irrigation schemes, traffic management, health will also be taken care of," the prime minister said.

Specification of PARAM shivaye

  •  Capacity- 833
  • 384 gb per node and ddr4 m
  • Application software suite using 223 processor nodes.
  • Secondary storage- 1 petabyte
  • RAM- DDR4
  • Cost- 32.5 Crore

Main highlights- 

  • Banking, mobile communication
  • Torandoes, maping , storm, weather pridiction
  • Earth plates can be pridicted for preventing earthquakes
  • In medical technology, quantum technology can be enhanced
  • Human DNA can be understood 
  • Minute chemical calculations can be done in less time
  • Satelliete, weather, 
  • Promote researchers, educators
  • Traffic management
  • Irrigration problem can be solved
  • weather, trafic.

OTHER SUPER COMPUTERS IN INDIA-

PRATYUSH- Indian Institute of Tropical Meterology
MIHIR- National Centre for medium range weather forecasting
SERC- CRay- IISc Bengaluru

Source- https://www.cdac.in/index.aspx?id=pk_itn_spot1230


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