Param-Kamrupa

Param-Kamrupa

Subject :Science and Technology

Context: President Draupadi Murmu along with many government schemes and welfare projects launched India’s latest supercomputer Param-Kamrupa

Concept:

• Param-Kamrupa was set up at IIT Guwahati under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) a joint initiative of the Ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST). There were 15 such supercomputers that were deployed across the country.
• The super computer’s software, design and all parts were built in the country making it a successful project of ‘make in India’ indigenous technology.
• It will be of great benefit to IIT Guwahati to carry out research activities in various scientific domains including forecasting weather and climate, bioinformatics, computational chemistry, molecular dynamics, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning and especially data science etc
• The supercomputing facility has been equipped with advanced facilities to cater to the computing needs of various scientific and engineering applications.
• Param-Kamrupa has 838 teraflops. A teraflop is a measure of a computer’s speed and can be expressed as a trillion floating point operations per second. An average gaming PC has a processing power of around 3-4 teraflops.
• The latest super computer’s speed was so high that some 1500 desktops can process its data at one point of time.
• It has software for users from different domains and can be used even from outside the institute.
• The super computer has a ‘liquid cooled system’ and the heat generated by the computer system can be easily taken away.
• The Param-Kamrupa super computer will not only give an additional edge to the use of data science but would also help in vital technologies like weather forecasting.