The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, has introduced that it has commissioned Param Pravega– it’s newest supercomputer underneath the the National Supercomputing Mission. Claimed to be one of the highly effective supercomputers in India, IISc additionally stated that it’s the “largest in an Indian academic institution”.
IISc stated that the Param Pravega supercomputer comes with a complete supercomputing capability of three.3 petaflops (1 petaflop equals a quadrillion or 1015 operations per second). This supercomputer will likely be used for analysis functions.
SPECIFICATIONS OF PARAM PRAVEGA SUPERCOMPUTER
The Param Pravega supercomputer has a mixture of heterogeneous nodes, with Intel Xeon Cascade Lake processors for the CPU nodes and NVIDIA Tesla V100 playing cards on the GPU nodes.
“The hardware consists of an ATOS BullSequana XH2000 series system, with a comprehensive peak compute power of 3.3 petaflops. The software stack on top of the hardware is provided and supported by C-DAC. The machine hosts an array of program development tools, utilities, and libraries for developing and executing High Performance Computing (HPC) applications,” defined Indian Institute of Science in an announcement.
The Param Pravega supercomputer is alleged to have 11 DCLC racks of compute nodes, 2 Service racks of Master/Service nodes, and 4 Storage racks of DDN storage.
“The node configuration includes 2 Master nodes, 11 Login nodes, 2 Firewall nodes, 4 Management, 1 NIS Slave and 624 (CPU+GPU) compute nodes. The compute nodes are of three categories, namely, Regular CPU, High-memory CPU, and GPU nodes,” it added.
All the nodes within the system are linked utilizing Mellanox high-speed HDR-Infiniband interconnection community utilizing a FAT-tree topology with a 1:1 subscription ratio. “The system is also augmented with a 4 Petabyte parallel storage from DDN for parallel file system access,” stated Indian Institute of Science.
PARAM PRAVEGA SUPERCOMPUTER SOFTWARE
Param Pravega is alleged to be constructed to function utilizing Linux OS based mostly on CentOS 7.x distribution. “The machine hosts an array of program development tools, utilities, and libraries for ease of development and execution of HPC applications on the heterogeneous hardware of the machine. Common compilers from GNU and Intel are accessible on the system for MPI and OpenMP parallel libraries. For use on the GPU nodes the system has CUDA and OpenACC SDKs installed,” as per the assertion.
IISC ALSO HAS SAHASRAT SUPERCOMPUTER
In 2015, IISc put in SahasraT, which was at the moment the quickest supercomputer within the nation. Explaining the use instances, IISc stated that its college members and college students have been utilizing the supercomputing facility to hold out analysis on COVID-19 and different infectious ailments amongst different matters like local weather change, flight autos, and many others. The new Param Pravega supercomputer is alleged to spice up prowess additional.
WHO MADE THE PARAM PRAVEGA SUPERCOMPUTER
The Param Pravega supercomputer has been designed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). A majority of the elements used to construct this technique have been manufactured and assembled inside India, together with an indigenous software program stack developed by C-DAC.
The National Supercomputing Mission is manned by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), and applied by C-DAC and IISc.
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