Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) launched ‘Param Shakti’ at Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

• The project has been funded under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM)

About Param Shakti

• It is an indigenously developed and manufactured 3.1 Petaflop supercomputing system.
  • It is now among the most powerful computational systems available in Indian academic institutions.
• It is built using Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)’s RUDRA series of servers and runs on an open-source software stack, including AlmaLinux.
• Significance: Its performance is expected to support complex research in aerospace engineering, materials science, climate modelling, drug discovery, and advanced manufacturing.

About National Supercomputing Mission (NSM)

• Launched: 2015
• Objective: To connect national academic and R&D (research and development) institutions with a grid of over 70 high-performance computing facilities.
  • The supercomputers are networked on the National Supercomputing grid over the National Knowledge Network (NKN).
• NSM is steered jointly by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and MeitY.
• Implemented by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune, and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.