Param Porul Super Computer

Param Porul Super Computer

News: PARAM PORUL, a state-of-the-art Supercomputer was inaugurated at NIT Tiruchirappalli recently. It has been established under Phase 2 of the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).

About NSM:
• It is being implemented and steered jointly by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY).
• Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is entrusted with overall design, development, deployment, and commissioning of computers build under this mission.

Focus of Mission:
• The Mission envisages empowering national academic and R&D institutions spread over the country by installing a vast supercomputing grid comprising of more than 70 highperformance computing facilities.
• These supercomputers will also be networked on the National Supercomputing grid over the National Knowledge Network (NKN). The NKN is another programme of the government which connects academic institutions and R&D labs over a high speed network.
• The Mission includes development of highly professional High Performance Computing (HPC) aware human resource for meeting challenges of development of these applications.

Supercomputers built under NSM scheme is used in following large scale applications:
• National Supercomputing Mission platform for Genomics and Drug Discovery
• Urban Modelling – Science based decision support framework to Address Urban environment issues (Meteorology, Hydrology, Air Quality)
• Flood Early Warning and Prediction system for River basins of India
• HPC software suite for Seismic Imaging to aid Oil and Gas exploration
• MPPLAB: Telecom Network Optimization