‘PARAM Ananta’, a supercomputing facility under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), has been commissioned at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN).

The 838 teraflops (TF) Supercomputing System is powered with 7400 CPU cores, 52TB RAM, 1PiB of storage space, and an enormous power of GPU nodes along with the usual software stack required to run high-end simulations. “As the facility is being commissioned at IITGN, we are very confident that its computing power will be used by the faculty, researchers, students of IITGN and other research institutions in the vicinity to come up with new applications in diverse areas of research for the benefit of society. The technical prowess we will be able to achieve with such facilities will not only push the ‘Make in India’ and ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ but also ‘Designing and Nurturing in India’, which is also the spirit of the National Supercomputing Mission,” said Sunita Verma, Group Coordinator and Scientist G, MeitY.Ananta literally means ‘endless’ or ‘limitless’. It will provide a tremendous amount of computational power to the scientific community of IITGN as well as the academic institutions and industries in the vicinity of the Institute to take their Research and Development (R&D) efforts to a global scale. It will also further accelerate and strengthen the Institute’s collaborative R&D activities.