PARAM ANANTA SUPERCOMPUTER

May 31, 2022

PARAM ANANTA Supercomputer was commissioned on May 30, 2022 at IIT Gandhinagar.

About:

  • PARAM ANANTA supercomputing facility is established under Phase 2 of the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) - a joint initiative of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and Department of Science and Technology (DST).
  • It is a 838 TeraFlops Supercomputing Facility and is based on Direct Contact Liquid Cooling technology.
  • Under NSM, till date 15 supercomputers have been installed across the nation with aggregate compute capacity of 24 petaflops. All these supercomputers have been manufactured in India and operating on indigenously developed software stack developed by Centre for Development in Advanced Computing (C-DAC).
Source : PIB