Tuesday, 08 March 2022 | PNS | Roorkee
The establishment of a supercomputing infrastructure at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), under the build approach of National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), will accelerate research and development in multidisciplinary domains of science and engineering. The focus is to provide computational power to the user community of IIT Roorkee and neighbouring academic institutions. This national supercomputing facility was inaugurated on Monday by IIT Roorkee board of governors chairman BVR Mohan Reddy.
IIT Roorkee had earlier signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with CDAC to establish such a state-of the art supercomputing facility involving Make-In-India components- the critical components such as motherboards for servers, direct contact liquid cooling data centres are manufactured in India.
Speaking on the occasion, Reddy said, “IIT Roorkee will carry out advanced research and capacity building using this supercomputing infrastructure developed under NSM. I am happy to see that the critical components of PARAM Ganga, such as motherboards for compute nodes and direct contact liquid cooling data centres, are manufactured in India as per the Government of India initiative of Atmanirbhar Bharat.”
CDAC director general Hemant Darbari said,” The basic idea behind building a Petascale Supercomputer with manufactured in India components is to lead the path towards Atmanirbhar Bharat and accelerate the problem solving capacity in multidisciplinary domains simultaneously. To this effect, PARAM Ganga, the new high-performance computational facility would aid researchers to solve complex problems of national importance and global significance. The new HPC infrastructure will serve as an essential compute environment for the modern day research along with their theoretical and experimental work.”
IIT Roorkee director professor Ajit K Chaturvedi said, “The NSM was launched in India in 2015 with an objective to establish state-of-the-art facilities to foster advanced research in compute power hungry areas. Under this mission, IIT Roorkee and CDAC have joined hands to make PARAM Ganga possible. It will provide a big boost to the research activities of IIT Roorkee in many different areas.”
