PARAM

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PARAM is a series of supercomputers designed and assembled by the Centre for Dev
elopment of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in Pune, India. The latest machine in the
series is the PARAM Yuva,[1] which reached no. 109 on the TOP500 in June 2009.[
2] Others include PARAM 10000 and PARAM 9000/SS and the PARAM Padma. The PARAM P
adma was India's first Teraflop supercomputer. Currently, C-DAC is developing a
Petaflop Supercomputer which is expected to be in operation by 2012.[3] The bigg
est challenge in designing the $125 million supercomputer is handling the power
consumption of the unit which is expected to be around 20MW up from the current
1MW consumption of the PARAM Yuva cluster. However, the new machine will also be
able to perform up to 100 times more computations per second than the current P
ARAM Yuva cluster.[4]
The major applications of PARAM are in long-range weather forecasting, remote se
nsing, drug design and molecular modelling.[5] PARAM is also used in many major
scientific research institutes in India and may also see use in India's space pr
ogramme.[6] In addition, collaborative research and experimentation is enabled b
y a national computing grid known as Garuda which connects 45 institutions acros
s 17 cities.[1] As of 2008, 44 PARAM systems have been deployed in India. An add
itional 8 systems are in operation in Russia, Singapore, Germany and Canada.[1]
PARAM Yuva Hardware Specifications
System Family HP Cluster Platform 3000
System Model HP DL580 Cluster
Operating System Linux
Number of Processors 4608 Intel Xeon 73xx 2.93 GHz, Infiniband
Peak Theoretical Performance 54005.8 Gigaflops
Peak Measured Performance 38100 Gigaflops
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