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PARAM ANANTA Supercomputer commissioned at IIT, Gandhinagar

PARAM ANANTA Supercomputer commissioned at IIT, Gandhinagar

PARAM ANANTA, a state-of the-art supercomputer at IIT Gandhinagar dedicated to the nation under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), a joint initiative of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and Department of Science and Technology (DST), was commissioned on Monday, May 30, by Sunita Verma, Group Coordinator and Scientist ‘G’, MeitY. This indigenous software stack is developed by C-DAC and is a Make in India initiative.

About the MoU:

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between IIT Gandhinagar and the Centre for Development in Advanced Computing (C-DAC) on October 12, 2020, to establish this 838 TeraFlops Supercomputing Facility under NSM. The system is equipped with a mix of CPU nodes, GPU nodes, high memory nodes, high throughput storage, and high-performance Infiniband interconnect to cater to the computing needs of various scientific and engineering applications.

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