C-DAC installed “PARAM Ganga” Supercomputer at IIT Roorkee.

Why in news?

• The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)has designed and installed a supercomputer named “PARAM Ganga”, at IIT Roorkee, under Phase II of National Supercomputing Mission (NSM). PARAM Ganga has a supercomputing capacity of 66 Petaflops.

About National Supercomputing Mission (NSM)

• NSM is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeiTY) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST).
• The mission is implemented by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.
• The NSM Mission aims to build and deploy 24 facilities with cumulative compute power of more than 64 Petaflops.
• Till date 11 systems have been deployed by C-DAC at IISc, IITs, IISER Pune, JNCASR, NABI-Mohali and C-DAC under NSM Phase-1 and Phase-2 with a cumulative computing power of more than 20 Petaflops.