In a joint initiative of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST), a state-of-the-art Supercomputer, PARAM PORUL was inaugurated at NIT Tiruchirappalli on May 25, 2022. NIT, Tiruchirappalli has been carrying out research in the areas of societal interest such as Health, Agriculture, Weather, and Financial Services.
The PARAM PORUL supercomputing facility is established under Phase 2 of the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM). The majority of the components used to build this system have been manufactured and assembled within the country. This includes the indigenous software stack developed by C-DAC, in line with the Make in India initiative.
PARAM PORUL
PARAM PORUL system is based on Direct Contact Liquid Cooling technology to obtain a high power usage effectiveness. This also helps in reducing the operational cost.
The system is equipped with a mix of CPU nodes, GPU nodes, High Memory nodes, High throughput storage, and high-performance Infiniband interconnect to cater to the computing needs of various scientific and engineering applications.
NIT Tiruchirappalli and the Centre for Development in Advanced Computing (C-DAC) on October 12, 2020, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish the 838 TeraFlops Supercomputing facility under NSM. NSM has sponsored several applied research projects using this Supercomputing facility involving researchers for other Indian institutes and industries.
Benefits
The facility installed under NSM will strengthen research in the field of supercomputing. Further, the new high-performance computational facility would also aid researchers to solve large-scale problems in different areas of Science and Engineering.
More so, this Supercomputing facility will provide a major boost to the research and development initiatives in Indian academia and industries to reach a position of global esteem.
Further, multiple applications from various scientific domains such as Weather and Climate, Bioinformatics, Computational Chemistry, Molecular Dynamics, Material Sciences, Computational Fluid Dynamics, etc. have been installed on the system for the benefit of researchers. Moreover, in the future, this high-end computing system will be a great value addition to the research community.
National Supercomputing Mission
Implemented at an estimated cost of Rs.4500 crore over seven years, the National Supercomputing Mission aims to empower the national academic and R&D institutions spread over the country by installing a vast supercomputing grid comprising more than 70 high-performance computing facilities.
Under NSM, to date 15 supercomputers have been installed across the nation with a computing capacity of 24 petaflops, all of which are Made in India and operate with an indigenously developed software stack.
The Mission also aims to develop highly professional High-Performance Computing (HPC) aware human resources for meeting the challenges of the development of these applications.
In 2019, the first Supercomputer “PARAM Shivay” was designed and built under the Build approach of the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) by C-DAC at the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi. It strengthened the scientific and research community of the nation. PARAM Shivay uses more than one lakh twenty thousand compute cores (CPU + GPU cores) to offer a peak compute power of 833 TeraFlops.
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