C-DAC, IIT Gandhinagar unveil Param Ananta, India’s newest supercomputer

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar have collectively unveiled a brand new supercomputer in part two of the central authorities’s National Supercomputing Mission (NSM). Called Param Ananta, the supercomputer is able to providing peak efficiency of 838 teraflops.

Sanctioned in October 2020, Param Ananta will provide IIT Gandhinagar with elevated capability for analysis initiatives in numerous fields, together with machine studying, information science, computational fluid dynamics, bioengineering and extra.

According to a press release by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity), the supercomputer has a blended set of CPU and GPU nodes, together with excessive throughput storage and excessive bandwidth reminiscence modules. It can be stated to supply direct contact liquid cooling expertise to extend efficiency effectivity, though it isn’t clear as to what efficiency per watt does it provide.

The supercomputer will rank behind C-DAC’s Param Siddhi-AI, which as of November 2021 was the 102nd strongest supercomputer on the earth — with peak efficiency functionality of three.3 petaflops.

With Param Ananta, India now has 15 supercomputers disclosed to the general public, with mixed efficiency functionality of 24 petaflops.

The announcement curiously comes on the identical day when USA’s Frontier supercomputer, run by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, was formally ranked as essentially the most highly effective supercomputer on the earth. The latter outperformed Fugaku, now the second strongest supercomputer and operated by Japan’s Riken Centre for Computational Science, to take the highest spot.

Frontier has been labelled because the world’s first ‘true’ exascale supercomputer, able to producing total computing energy in a number of exaflops. In direct comparability, C-DAC and IIT Gandhinagar’s newest Param Ananta supercomputer gives a fraction of the online efficiency functionality that the world’s strongest publicly recognized supercomputer can produce at present.

The official checklist of the world’s high 500 supercomputers shall be printed in Hamburg, Germany on June 1.

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