Param Shakti

PARAM Shakti Supercomputing Facility

The PARAM Shakti supercomputer at IIT Kharagpur is a state-of-the-art high-performance computing system based on a heterogeneous and hybrid architecture. It integrates Intel Xeon Skylake processors with NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs to deliver high computational efficiency for scientific and engineering applications.

The system was designed and implemented by the HPC Technologies team at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) under the National Supercomputing Mission.

System Highlights

• Architecture: Hybrid CPU-GPU (Intel Xeon Skylake + NVIDIA Tesla V100)
• Master Nodes: 2
• Login Nodes: 8
• Service/Management Nodes: 10
• Compute Nodes: 442 (CPU + GPU)
• Peak Performance: ~1.6–1.66 PFLOPS
• Interconnect: Mellanox EDR InfiniBand
• File System: Lustre Parallel File System

The cluster is interconnected through a high-speed InfiniBand network, enabling low-latency communication between nodes. The Lustre-based parallel file system ensures efficient handling of large-scale data workloads, making PARAM Shakti a robust platform for advanced computational research.

PARAM Shakti – System Architecture

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