The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) unveiled ‘the world’s most compact supercomputing system’, on the occasion of Good Governance Day, on Thursday.
Christened as ‘Param Shavak’, the new high performance computing system (HPC) aims to provide computational resource with advanced technologies to perform high-end computations on a large scale required for scientific, engineering and academic programmes, a release said.
It was launched by Union Minister for Communications and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad at a formal function held in Delhi.
“The ‘Param Shavak’ is designed for research organisations as well as academic institutions that need high-performance computing for education and research,” C-DAC has said.
Addressing the media, Rajat Moona, director general, C-DAC, said that ‘Param Shavak’ was the perfect compromise between high-performance computing requirements and infrastructure availability. “The compact nature of its design makes it an ideal solution for multiple environments both for research as well as for training. We are hopeful that the research and academic institutes will see the potential of this tool to ramp up their in-house research and scale new challenges,” he said.
Sanjay Wandhekar, associate director and head of the department, HPC, C-DAC, Pune, added that ‘Param Shavak’ came with indigenously developed software with most of the features found in a full-fledged HPC cluster.