PARAM SHAKTI Supercomputer Boosts India’s Research Power by 3.1 Quadrillion Calculations Per Second”
New Delhi [India], January 10: When S Krishnan, the Secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), recently inaugurated PARAM SHAKTI at IIT Madras, it was not the customary ribbon-cutting ceremony but a bold statement of India becoming more technologically empowered. PARAM SHAKTI is not just another supercomputer. It is built on homegrown [...]
New Delhi [India], January 10: When S Krishnan, the Secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), recently inaugurated PARAM SHAKTI at IIT Madras, it was not the customary ribbon-cutting ceremony but a bold statement of India becoming more technologically empowered. PARAM SHAKTI is not just another supercomputer. It is built on homegrown hardware, based on C-DAC RUDRA servers, and operates on an indigenous software stack using the open-source AlmaLinux. It can perform 3.1 quadrillion calculations per second—yes, quadrillion, with a capital Q.
It is not a flashy technological flaunt. It is an Indian science turbocharger. Researchers in aerospace, materials science, climate modeling, drug discovery, and advanced manufacturing now have a device that compresses decades of experiments into months, sometimes even weeks. Slow science? That’s officially a thing of the past. PARAM SHAKTI has put Indian research on the fast track, and the finish line is nowhere in sight.
At Work: Building a National Supercomputing Mission
PARAM SHAKTI is part of the flagship National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), led by MeitY and the Department of Science and Technology. The mission has already deployed 37 supercomputers across major Indian research institutions, with more under construction—including a massive facility planned in Bengaluru. India is not playing small; it is building a network of computational power capable of competing on a global scale.
