Param Ishan is a supercomputer developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), an organization under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in India. It was launched in 2016 and is one of the fastest supercomputers in India.
The Param Ishan supercomputer is built using a combination of custom-designed components and off-the-shelf hardware. It uses a parallel processing architecture, which allows it to perform calculations on multiple processors simultaneously. The machine is built with 384 nodes, each containing two Intel Xeon E5-2695v4 processors, for a total of 7,680 processor cores. It has a peak performance of 250 teraflops (trillions of floating point operations per second) and a memory capacity of 37.5 terabytes.
The Param Ishan supercomputer is used for a wide range of applications, including scientific research, weather forecasting, and engineering simulations. It is particularly useful for solving problems that require large amounts of data to be processed simultaneously, such as climate modeling and fluid dynamics simulations.
The development of the Param Ishan supercomputer was a significant achievement for India, as it demonstrated the country's ability to develop world-class supercomputing technologies. It also helped establish C-DAC as a leading organization in the field of high-performance computing. Today, India has several supercomputers that are among the fastest and most powerful in the world, and the country continues to invest in the development of new supercomputing technologies.