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29/03/22 07:30 AM IST

Petascale Supercomputer Param Shakti

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PARAM Shakti”, a Petascale Supercomputer “at IIT Kharagpur, has been dedicated to the nation under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).

About PARAM Shakti
  • This is  a joint initiative of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)  and Department of Science and Technology (DST).
  • 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.
  • This facility has pioneered in using RDHX based efficient cooling system to obtain a high power usage effectiveness.
  • This system has been tested extensively by both IIT Kharagpur and CDAC for commercial, open-source and in-house software pertaining to diversified applications.
  • The new high-performance computational facility would aid researchers to solve large-scale problems of different fields of Science and Engineering.
Applications

  •  Computational Fluid Dynamics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Analytics, Climate Change & Digital Earth, Computational Biology, Cryptography & Security, Smart Infrastructure & Sustainable Cities, Smart Materials

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