PARAM Siddhi is the second Indian supercomputer on the Top 500 list to be included in the top 100. Pratyush, a supercomputer used at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology for weather forecasting, was ranked 78th on the November list. In the June rankings announced by the project, it was ranked 66th. Mihir (146th onthelist), another Indian supercomputer, has clubs with Pratyush to generate enough computing power to equal PARAM-Siddhi.
It is a supercomputer built under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) at C-DAC for high-performance computing-artificial intelligence (HPC-AI). It was previously commissioned by the CDAC and was developed in partnership with chipmaker Nvidia and Atos, a French IT consulting company.
Deep learning, visual computing, augmented reality, accelerated computing, as well as virtualization of graphics can assist. As a forum for academia, scientific research, start-ups and more the machine is supposed to be used.
The project Top500 monitors the world’s most powerful supercomputers and is published twice a year.
According to the list, the Japanese supercomputer Fugaku (442 petaflops) and IBM’s Summit (148.8 petaflops) are the world’s two most powerful supercomputers.
Chinese Sunway TaihuLight, created by the National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering & Technology (NRCPC) in China, is number four on the list (93 petaflops).