The IIT-Patna will get a PARAM supercomputer of 833 Tera Flops (TF) high performance computing (HPC) system by September this year. It will be the first supercomputer in Bihar.
The IIT-P and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), a central government body, on Tuesday inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for setting up the supercomputer under the Centre’s National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) funded by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) and Department of Science and Technology (DST).
As per the MoU, the supercomputer will be commissioned at IIT-Patna’s Bihta campus by September this year. Its will be based on Rudra server, which is indigenously designed, manufactured and assembled in India in line with the AatmaNirbhar Bharat Abhiyan.