National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) has set up to provide the country with supercomputing infrastructure to meet the increasing computational demands of academia, researchers, MSMEs, and startups. It is a first of its kind attempt to boost the country’s computing power. National Super Computing Mission is steered jointly by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) and implemented by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.
With the approval of Technical Advisory Committee and Executive Board, a revised plan based on buy to build-approach was put in place. The first supercomputer assembled indigenously, called PARAM Shivay, was installed in IIT (BHU) and was inaugurated by the Honorable Prime Minister. Similarly, the 14th machine was dedicated to the nation by the Honorable President of India in IIT Guwahati. The installations completed as on March 2023 and their details are given below. They are all majorly equipped with applications to cater the domains like Weather and Climate, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Bioinformatics, and Material science.
| Computing Power | Number of systems commissioned |
| Lower range (≥ 50TF, < 500TF) | 13 |
| Mid-range (above 500 TF, but < 1 Peta flops) | 8 |
| Large scale (> 1 Peta flops includes GPU) | 7 |
I - NSM Systems
| Sr. No. | Institute Name | HPC System Name | Computing Power |
| IIT(BHU), Varanasi | PARAM Shivay | 838TF |
| IISER, Pune | PARAM Brahma | 1.70PF |
| IIT, Kharagpur | PARAM Shakti | 1.66PF |
| JNCASR, Bangalore | PARAM Yukti | 1.8PF |
| IIT, Kanpur | PARAM Sanganak | 1.66PF |
| C-DAC, Pune | PARAM Siddhi-AI | 5.2PF/210PF (AI) |
| IIT, Hyderabad | PARAM Seva | 838TF |
| NABI, Mohali | PARAM Smriti | 838TF |
| IISc, Bangalore | PARAM Pravega | 3.3PF |
| C-DAC, Bangalore | PARAM Utkarsh | 838TF |
| IIT, Roorkee | PARAM Ganga | 1.66PF |
| IIT, Gandhinagar | PARAM Ananta | 838TF |
| NIT, Trichy | PARAM Porul | 838TF |
| IIT, Guwahati | PARAM Kamrupa | 838TF |
| IIT, Mandi | PARAM Himalaya | 838TF |
II - R&D and Application development systems
| Sr. No. | Institute Name | HPC System Name | Computing Power | Year of Commissioning |
| C-DAC, Pune | SANGAM Testbed | 150 TF | 2017 |
| C-DAC, Pune | PARAM Shrestha | 100 TF | 2018 |
| C-DAC, Pune | PARAM Embryo | 100 TF | 2020 |
| C-DAC, Pune | PARAM Neel | 100 TF | 2020 |
| SETS, Chennai | PARAM Spoorthi | 100 TF | 2020 |
| C-DAC, Pune | Bioinformatics R&D Facility | 230 TF | 2021 |
| C-DAC, Bangalore | System Software lab | 82TF | 2020 |
| C-DAC, Pune | PARAM Sampooran | 27 TF | 2020 |
III - PARAM Vidya under NSM HRD (For education and training)
| Sr. No. | Institute Name | HPC System Name | Computing Power | Year of Commissioning |
| C-DAC, Pune | PARAM Vidya1 | 52.3 TF | 2022 |
| IIT, Kharagpur | PARAM Vidya2 | 52.3 TF | 2022 |
| IIT, Palakkad | PARAM Vidya3 | 52.3 TF | 2022 |
| IIT, Chennai | PARAM Vidya4 | 52.3 TF | 2022 |
| IIT, Goa | PARAM Vidya5 | 52.3 TF | 2022 |
NSM has successfully installed 24.83 PF of HPC machines across the country against 15- 20 PF originally envisioned. Also, 12 more machines with a total capacity of 41.17 PF is scheduled to be commissioned in a year time. The upcoming new installations will be based on indigenous Rudra server platform manufactured in India. This will provide a total computing power of 66 PF, which is 4.5 times higher than the intended computing capacity.
The indigenous efforts resulted in the creation of Trinetra high-speed interconnects and Direct Liquid Cooling units. We have our own server based on Intel Cascade platform called Rudra. These systems are cost efficient and power efficient in operation.
The salient achievements of the NSM are as follows:
- A total capacity of 24.83 PF HPC machines are built locally and commissioned across the country.
- Development of Rudra server board 1.0, Trinetra HPC interconnects, HPC system software stack 1.1 and various benchmarks (cloud, HPC) applications.
- 17500 people have been trained so far in High Performance Computing
- More than 5930 expert users from 100+ institutes are using the facilities routinely
- 73,25,604 high performance computational queries have been executed till recently.
Please visit https://nsmindia.in for further details.
