PARAM SIDDHI-AI

PARAM SIDDHI-AI :

Param Siddhi is a high-performance computing-artificial intelligence supercomputer established at C-DAC under the National Supercomputing Mission.
It has secured rank 63 in the TOP 500 most powerful non-distributed computer system list in the world.

Features :

Param Siddhi was jointly developed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and the Department of Science and Technology.
The supercomputer has a speed of 5.267 petaflops. It has now got the recognition of non-distributed super computer systems.

What are petaflops?

It is a unit of computing speed.
n simple words, FLOP is the number of arithmetic operations a machine can do in a second.

What are non-distributed computer systems?

In a non-distributed computer system, all the components are in a single location.
In case of Param Siddhi, all of its components are located in Pune.
The technology will help in agriculture, healthcare, energy, education space, cybersecurity, weather and AI application.

National Supercomputing Mission

India is currently implementing the third phase of the National Supercomputing Mission.
The main aim of the mission is to install 70 supercomputers & the Government has allocated Rs 4,500 crores to the mission.
The National Supercomputing Mission was announced in 2015.
- It will support the “Digital India” and “Make in India” initiatives of GoI.
- Under the mission, the first supercomputer of India was installed in IIT-BHU, Varanasi. It was named “PARAM SHIVAY”.

Source: PIB

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