PARAM
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PARAM is a series of supercomputers assembled using off-the-shelf U.S. manufactured components by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in Pune, India. The latest machine in the series is the PARAM Padma, which reached no. 171 on the TOP500 in 2003. Others include PARAM 10000 and PARAM 9000/SS. The PARAM 10000 was India's first TFLOPS computer.
The major applications of PARAM 10000 are in long-range weather forecasting, remote sensing, drug design and molecular modelling. PARAMs in the future may well be used for India's space programme. Plans to use it for oil and gas exploration are also on the line.
The PARAM is used in almost all major scientific research institutes in India. It has also been exported to countries like Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and South Korea.
Hardware Resources:
Configuration : 54 Nos. of 4-Way SMP nodes and 1 No. of 32-Way SMP node.
No. of Processors : 248 (Power 4@1GHz).
Aggregate Memory : 0.5 TeraBytes (@ 8GB per node and 64GB per large SMP node).
Internal Storage : 4.5 TeraBytes (@ 72GB per node and 576GB per large SMP node).
Operating System : AIX 5L .
Aggregate Peak Computing Power : 1005 GFs (~1 TF).
