#JUSTIN | Indian Institute of Science @iiscbangalore says it has installed and commissioned Param Pravega, one of the most powerful supercomputers in the country, and the largest in an Indian academic institution as part of the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM). 1/n 
The system, which is expected to power diverse research and educational pursuits, has a total supercomputing capacity of 3.3 petaflops (1 petaflop equals a quadrillion or 1,015 operations per second). 2/n
It has been designed by the @cdacindia. A majority of the components used have been manufactured and assembled within India, along with an indigenous software stack developed by C-DAC, a statement issued by IISc reads.
Steered jointly by @IndiaDST & Ministry of Electronics and Info Tech, NSM is implemented by C-DAC and IISc. It has supported deployment of 10 supercomputers so far at IISc, IITs, IISER Pune, JNCASR, NABI-Mohali & C-DAC, with a cumulative computing power of 17 petaflops. 4/n
About 31L computational jobs have successfully been carried out by 2.6k researchers to date. These systems, have helped faculty and students carry out R&D activities, including devp platforms for genomics, drug discovery, study urban envi issues, establish flood warning etc. 5/n
"Param Pravega is a mix of heterogeneous nodes, with Intel Xeon Cascade Lake processors for CPU nodes and NVIDIA Tesla V100 cards on GPU nodes. Hardware consists ATOS BullSequana XH2000 series system, with a comprehensive peak compute power of 3.3 petaflops,” IISc said. 6/n
"...The software stack on top of the hardware is provided and supported by C-DAC. The machine hosts an array of program development tools, utilities, and libraries for developing and executing High Performance Computing (HPC) applications," IISc added. 7/n
The institute (IISc) already has a cutting-edge supercomputing facility established several years ago. In 2015, it procured and installed SahasraT, which was at that time the fastest supercomputer in the country. 8/n
...Faculty members, students have been using this for research in various impactful and socially-relevant areas, including #COVID19 & other infectious diseases, such as modelling viral entry and binding, studying interactions of proteins in bacterial and viral diseases etc. 9/n
IISc added: Researchers have also used the facility to simulate turbulent flows for green energy technologies, study climate change and associated impacts, analyse aircraft engines and hypersonic flight vehicles, and many other research activities. 10/n
“...These efforts are expected to ramp up significantly with Param Pravega,” IISc said. n/n
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