Param Porul Super Computer:

GS Paper 3:

Syllabus: Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, robotics, nano-technology, bio-technology and issues relating to intellectual property rights.

Context:

PARAM PORUL, a state-of-the-art Supercomputer was inaugurated at NIT Tiruchirappalli recently.

• It has been established under Phase 2 of the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).

How many Super Computers have been installed in the country so far?

As per the ministry of science and technology’s annual year-end review:

Under the National Super-Computer Mission (NSM), four new Supercomputers have been installed since July 2021 at IIT-Hyderabad, NABI- Mohali, CDAC-Bengaluru and IIT Kanpur.

What is National Supercomputing Mission (NSM)?

It is being implemented and steered jointly by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY).

• Implemented by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.

Focus of the mission:

• The Mission envisages empowering 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 NKN is another programme of the government which connects academic institutions and R&D labs over a high speed network.
• The Mission includes development of highly professional High Performance Computing (HPC) aware human resource for meeting challenges of development of these applications.

Achievements:

• The first supercomputer assembled indigenously, called Param Shivay, was installed in IIT (BHU).
• Similar systems Param Shakti and Param Brahma were installed at IIT-Kharagpur and IISER, Pune. They are equipped with applications from domains like Weather and Climate, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Bioinformatics, and Material science.

Insta Curious:

India has developed an indigenous server (Rudra), which can meet the High-Performance Computing (HPC) requirements of all governments and PSUs.

• This is the first time that a server system was made in India, along with the full software stack developed by C-DAC.

InstaLinks:

Prelims Link:

1. Super computers in India and the world.
2. How do they perform faster?
3. About NKM.
4. Targets under NSM.

Mains Link:

Write a note on the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).

Q.4) Which of the following are the names of supercomputers in India?

1. PARAM PORUL.
2. PARAM Yuva.
3. PARAM Shakti.

Choose the correct answer using the codes given below:

1. 1 only.
2. 2 only.
3. Both.
4. None.

Sources: PIB.