India’s fastest supercomputer PARAM SIDDHI AI, ranked #62 globally (2024)

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India’s fastest supercomputer PARAM SIDDHI AI, ranked #62 globally? ›

PARAM Siddhi - AI, the high-performance computing-artificial intelligence (HPC-AI) supercomputer, has achieved global ranking of 62 in the TOP 500 most powerful supercomputer systems in the world, released on 16th November 2020.

India's AI Supercomputer 'AIRAWAT' has been ranked No. 75 in the world at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC 2023) in Germany.

PARAM means "supreme" in the Sanskrit language, whilst also creating an acronym for "PARAllel Machine". As of November 2022, the fastest machine in the series is the PARAM Siddhi AI which ranks 63rd in world, with an Rpeak of 5.267 petaflops.

About PARAM Param Siddhi-AI

This system comprises 336 NVIDIA A100 GPUs and is a dense GPU compute resource used for executing popular AI and HPC workloads. The configuration of the system includes 42 compute nodes of NVIDIA DGX-A100, each having 2 AMD EPYC CPUs, 8 A100 GPUs and 1 TB RAM.

Airawat PSAI, stands as India's largest and fastest AI supercomputing system, with a remarkable speed of 13,170 teraflops.

The United States has the highest aggregate computational power at 3,652 Petaflops Rmax with Japan second (621 Pflop/s) and China third (292 Pflop/s).

Housed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Frontier has held number one since the June 2022 list. The supercomputer has an HPL (high performance Linpack) benchmark score of 1.194 exaflops, uses AMD Epyc 64C 2GHz processors, and is based on the HPE Cray EX235a architecture.

PARAM Shivay was a high-performance, high computing cluster with 833 Teraflop capacity built at the cost of Rs 32.5 crore under the NSM at IIT-BHU. The PARAM Shivay supercomputer uses more than one lakh twenty thousand compute cores (CPU + GPU cores) to offer a peak compute power of 833 Teraflops.

Param Siddhi is a High Performance Computing-Artificial Intelligence (HPC-AI) supercomputer developed by Department of Science and Technology (DST) under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing.

As of June 2023, the AIRAWAT supercomputer is the fastest supercomputer in India, having been ranked 75th fastest in the world in the TOP500 supercomputer list.

Where is the world's fastest computer located? ›

It is hosted at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) in Tennessee, United States and became operational in 2022. As of December 2023, Frontier is the world's fastest supercomputer.

Vijay Pandurang Bhatkar is an Indian Computer Scientist, It Leader and Educationalist. He is best known as The Architect of India's National Initiative in Supercomputing where he led The Development of Param Supercomputers.

Vijay P. Bhatkar is best known as the architect of India's national initiative in supercomputing where he led the development of Param supercomputers. He developed the first Indian supercomputer, the PARAM 8000, in 1991.

Aurora ranks as world's fastest AI supercomputer in latest TOP500 benchmark. The U.S. Energy Department's Aurora supercomputer has achieved the highest score yet in a closely-watched artificial intelligence performance test.

Finally, the top 100 most powerful supercomputers have a combined processing power of about 8 Exaflops, equivalent to about eight Human Brains. There's another 8 billion Brains in the world!

From November 2017 to November 2022, China had been the leader in the number of supercomputers. However, the United States has been the leader since the ranking published in June 2023. As of November 2023, the US has 161 supercomputers among the world's 500 most powerful supercomputers.

India ranks 14th in the world with a mere 1.4 per cent share of paper contribution in the top 10 AI research conferences spanning a period of five years from 2018-2023.

As of December 2023, Frontier is the world's fastest supercomputer. It is based on the Cray EX and is the successor to Summit (OLCF-4).