India’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) supercomputer Param Siddhi has achieved 63rd rank among top 500 most powerful non-distributed computer systems in the world.
- India’s largest HPC-AI supercomputer, ‘PARAM Siddhi – AI’ has been developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC).
- The supercomputer have 210 AI Petaflops (6.5 Petaflops Peak DP) and is based on the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD reference architecture
- According to the Ministry of Science and Technology, the AI system will strengthen application development of packages in areas such as advanced materials, computational chemistry and astrophysics.
- Several packages are being developed under the National Supercomputing Mission for drug design and preventive health care system, flood forecasting package for flood prone metro cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Patna and Guwahati.
- This will accelerate Research and Development in war against COVID-19 through faster simulations, medical imaging, genome sequencing and forecasting and will be a boon for Indian masses and for start-Ups and MSMEs in particular.
About National Supercomputing Mission
- The Mission envisages empowering our national academic and R&D institutions spread over the country by installing a vast supercomputing grid comprising of more than 70 high-performance computing facilities.
- These supercomputers will also be networked on the National Supercomputing grid over the National Knowledge Network (NKN).
- The Mission is being implemented and steered jointly by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) at an estimated cost of Rs.4500 crore over a period of seven years.
(Source: AIR)
