IIT-BHU gets the first 'Made in India' supercomputer - Param Shivay

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the supercomputer 'Param Shivay' on Tuesday at IIT-BHU under the National Supercomputing Mission. Developed by the Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), it has a capacity of 833 teraflops and is built at a cost of ₹32.5 crores. The hon'ble PM also released a postal stamp on the centenary year of the institute.

"The National Supercomputing Mission is an important initiative from the Government of India. It supports the government's vision of 'Digital India' and 'Make in India'. It will also play a major role in keeping our country in the forefront of the world's supercomputing map. The research that takes months would now be completed in a few minutes or hours with the help of this supercomputer", said the IIT-BHU director professor Pramod Kumar Jain.

On the ocassion, the hon'ble Prime Minister said, "This supercomputer will benifit the faculty members, scientists and research students of the institute. Apart from this, scientists, teachers and research students and government research labs in adjacent engineering colleges of Eastern UP, the projects will be given 40 percent computing power and students of Navodaya Vidyalaya will be introduced to basic supercomputing. Also, the problems such as irrigation schemes, traffic management and health will be taken care of.
He also said that indegenous supercomputer software will be developed in various scientific area under the supercomputer program. Simultaneously, modelling and simulation will be applied in areas like climate assessments, weather forecasting, space engineering, seismic analysis, disaster management and simulation, finance, search astrophysics, macro-data analytics and information collection.