According to a report by By India Science Wire, one of the nation's most potent supercomputers has been installed at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

It's the biggest in an Indian academic institution and is known as Param Pravega. Param Pravega is the fastest supercomputer in india. It was established as part of the National Supercomputing Mission, which is led by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and the Department of Science and Technology (MeitY).

3.3 petaflops of supercomputing power are available on Param Parvega. One petaflop, or 1,000 teraflops, is equivalent to quadrillion (thousand trillion) floating-point operations per second (FLOPS).

The Center for Development of Advanced Computing created the supercomputer. Many of the parts that were used to build the supercomputer were actually produced in India. Even the software stack on which it runs was created locally by C-DAC.

The supercomputer is powered by Nvidia Tesla V100 cards for the GPU nodes and Intel Xeon Cascade Lake processors for the CPU nodes. The machine has a variety of utilities, libraries, and programme development tools that are useful for creating and running High-Performance Computing applications.

C-DAC and IISc have put the National Supercomputing Missions into action. It has supported the installation of 10 additional supercomputers around the country, seen in places like the IITs, IISER Pune, JNCASR, and NABI-Mohali, with a total computing power of 17 petaflops!

What purposes do supercomputers serve?

Supercomputers like Param Parvega have assisted students and academic staff in conducting research and development activities, such as creating platforms for drug discovery and genomics, comprehending urban environmental issues, setting up flood warning and prediction systems, and optimising telecom networks.

However, this isn't IISc's first supercomputer. Prior to Param Parvega, in 2015, it had SahasraT, which at the time was the fastest supercomputer in india . Faculty members have employed SahasraT to model viral entry, bind, examine protein interactions, and conduct research on COVID-19.

Any one of a group of incredibly powerful computers is a supercomputer. The phrase is frequently used to refer to the quickest high-performance systems at any given period. These computers have mostly been employed for scientific and technical tasks needing extremely fast computations. Testing mathematical models for intricate physical designs or phenomena, such as climate and weather, cosmic evolution, nuclear weapons and reactors, novel chemical compounds (particularly for pharmaceutical uses), and cryptology, are common applications for supercomputers. Supercomputers were used by more companies for market research and other business-related modelling as the cost of supercomputing fell in the 1990s.