Param Porul supercomputer inaugurated at NIT Tiruchirappalli

In a joint initiative of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST), a state-of-the-art Supercomputer, PARAM PORUL was inaugurated at NIT Tiruchirappalli on May 25, 2022. NIT, Tiruchirappalli has been carrying out research in the areas of societal interest such as Health, Agriculture, Weather, and Financial Services. Param Porul supercomputing facility is established under phase two of the national supercomputing mission to facilitate computational research.

About the Param Porul:

PARAM PORUL system is based on Direct Contact Liquid Cooling technology to obtain a high power usage effectiveness. This also helps in reducing the operational cost. Multiple applications from various scientific domains such as Weather and Climate, Bioinformatics, Computational Chemistry, Molecular Dynamics, Material Sciences, Computational Fluid Dynamics etc. have been installed on the system for the benefit of researchers.

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.