India, Nov 21: PARAM-Siddhi Super Computer is the latest and the fastest supercomputer of India. It has been ranked 63rd among the top 100 supercomputers of the world. It has been selected under the category of non-distributed computers, which means the system has all its components at a single location (Pune). This is India’s second entry to this prestigious group with Pratyush being the older one presently ranked at 78.
Param Siddhi was conceived and designed by C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing) and developed in association with chipmaker Nvidia and Atos (French IT consulting firm). It has been established under Nation Supercomputing Mission (NSM).
It is a high-performance computing- artificial intelligence (HPC-AI) supercomputer. It will have 210 AI Petaflops. This supercomputer will help overcome the challenges faced in healthcare, agriculture, education, weather prediction etc. Japan’s Fugaku, which has an additional hardware of 442 Petaflops, has been ranked first in the list.