National Super Computing Mission

National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) has set up to provide the country with supercomputing infrastructure to meet the increasing computational demands of academia, researchers, MSMEs, and startups. It is a first of its kind attempt to boost the country’s computing power. National Super Computing Mission is steered jointly by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) and implemented by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. 

With the approval of Technical Advisory Committee and Executive Board, a revised plan based on buy to build-approach was put in place. The first supercomputer assembled indigenously, called PARAM Shivay, was installed in IIT (BHU) and was inaugurated by the Honorable Prime Minister. Similarly, the 14th machine was dedicated to the nation by the Honorable President of India in IIT Guwahati. The installations completed as on March 2023 and their details are given below. They are all majorly equipped with applications to cater the domains like Weather and Climate, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Bioinformatics, and Material science.

Computing Power 
 Number of systems commissioned
Lower range (≥ 50TF, < 500TF)

13
Mid-range (above 500 TF, but < 1 Peta flops)

8
Large scale (> 1 Peta flops includes GPU)

7

NSM

I - NSM Systems

Sr. No.

Institute Name

HPC System Name

Computing Power
  1. 1

IIT(BHU), Varanasi

PARAM Shivay

838TF
  1. 2

IISER, Pune

PARAM Brahma

1.70PF
  1. 3

IIT, Kharagpur

PARAM Shakti

1.66PF
  1. 4

JNCASR, Bangalore

PARAM Yukti

1.8PF
  1. 5

IIT, Kanpur

PARAM Sanganak

1.66PF
  1. 6

C-DAC, Pune

PARAM Siddhi-AI

5.2PF/210PF (AI)
  1. 7

IIT, Hyderabad

PARAM Seva

838TF
  1. 8

NABI, Mohali

PARAM Smriti

838TF
  1. 9

IISc, Bangalore

PARAM Pravega

3.3PF
  1. 10

C-DAC, Bangalore

PARAM Utkarsh

838TF
  1. 11

IIT, Roorkee

PARAM Ganga

1.66PF
  1. 12

IIT, Gandhinagar

PARAM Ananta

838TF
  1. 13

NIT, Trichy

PARAM Porul

838TF
  1. 14

IIT, Guwahati

PARAM Kamrupa

838TF
  1. 15

IIT, Mandi

PARAM Himalaya

838TF

II - R&D and Application development systems

Sr. No.

Institute Name

HPC System Name

Computing Power

Year of Commissioning
  1. 16

C-DAC, Pune

SANGAM Testbed

150 TF

2017
  1. 17

C-DAC, Pune

PARAM Shrestha

100 TF

2018
  1. 18

C-DAC, Pune

PARAM Embryo

100 TF

2020
  1. 19

C-DAC, Pune

PARAM Neel

100 TF

2020
  1. 20

SETS, Chennai

PARAM Spoorthi

100 TF

2020
  1. 21

C-DAC, Pune

Bioinformatics R&D Facility                    

230 TF

2021
  1. 22

C-DAC, Bangalore

System Software lab

82TF

2020
  1. 23

C-DAC, Pune

PARAM Sampooran

27 TF

2020

III - PARAM Vidya under NSM HRD (For education and training)

Sr. No.

Institute Name

HPC System Name

Computing Power

Year of Commissioning
  1. 24

C-DAC, Pune

PARAM Vidya1

52.3 TF

2022
  1. 25

IIT, Kharagpur

PARAM Vidya2

52.3 TF

2022
  1. 26

IIT, Palakkad

PARAM Vidya3

52.3 TF

2022
  1. 27

IIT, Chennai

PARAM Vidya4

52.3 TF

2022
  1. 28

IIT, Goa

PARAM Vidya5

52.3 TF

2022

NSM has successfully installed 24.83 PF of HPC machines across the country against 15- 20 PF originally envisioned. Also, 12 more machines with a total capacity of 41.17 PF is scheduled to be commissioned in a year time. The upcoming new installations will be based on indigenous Rudra server platform manufactured in India. This will provide a total computing power of 66 PF, which is 4.5 times higher than the intended computing capacity.

The indigenous efforts resulted in the creation of Trinetra high-speed interconnects and Direct Liquid Cooling units. We have our own server based on Intel Cascade platform called Rudra. These systems are cost efficient and power efficient in operation.

The salient achievements of the NSM are as follows:

  • A total capacity of 24.83 PF HPC machines are built locally and commissioned across the country.
  • Development of Rudra server board 1.0, Trinetra HPC interconnects, HPC system software stack 1.1 and various benchmarks (cloud, HPC) applications.
  • 17500 people have been trained so far in High Performance Computing
  • More than 5930 expert users from 100+ institutes are using the facilities routinely
  • 73,25,604 high performance computational queries have been executed till recently.

Please visit https://nsmindia.in for further details.