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IIT Kharagpur gets Petascale Supercomputer to take up large scale projects

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PARAM Shakti, a Petascale Supercomputer at IIT Kharagpur, has been inaugurated under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) which will help researchers solve large-scale problems in various fields of science and engineering.</p>
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Petascale computing refers to computing systems capable of calculating at least 1015 floating point operations per second (1 petaFLOPS).</p>
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The supercomputer was inaugurated on March 27 by West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar in the presence of Prof V K Tewari, Director, IIT Kharagpur.</p>
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A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between IIT Kharagpur and Centre for Development in Advanced Computing (CDAC) in March 2019 to establish this state-of the art Supercomputing Facility with 17680 CPU cores along with 44 GPUs.</p>
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This facility has pioneered in using RDHX based efficient cooling system to obtain a high power usage effectiveness. This system has been tested extensively by both IIT Kharagpur and CDAC for commercial, open-source and in-house software pertaining to diversified applications.</p>
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The new high-performance computational facility would aid researchers to solve large-scale problems of different fields of Science and Engineering. Some of the identified focus areas in which this supercomputing based research will be of great value addition are: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Analytics, Climate Change & Digital Earth, Computational Biology, Cryptography & Security, Smart Infrastructure & Sustainable Cities and Smart Materials.</p>
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IIT Kharagpur is also one of the NSM nodal centres for training in HPC and AI and working on development manpower required for the Supercomputing Research across the nation.</p>
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IIT Kharagpur has also established the Centre for Computational and Data Science with a mandate to train the researchers in Supercomputer accelerated R&D.</p>
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<strong>Also read: <a href="https://www.indianarrative.com/science-news/indian-scientists-develop-better-technique-to-detect-covid-148869.html">Indian scientists develop better technique to detect Covid-19</a></strong></p>

IN Bureau

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