C-DAC unveils India’s fastest supercomputer, Param Yuva-II

BANGALORE, INDIA: The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune has unveiled the next-gen Param supercomputer, Param Yuva-II.

The supercomputer, inaugurated recently, is is an upgrade of the existing Param Yuva system.

This system consists of 224 Intel based Tyrone servers having Intel's latest Xeon Sandy Bridge Processors & Xeon Phi co-processors, with over 30,000 processing cores including co-processors and total 14 TB of memory.

The supercomputer is India's largest supercomputer built with hybrid technology and has a peak computing capacity of more than 500 Teraflops.

Pradeep K Sinha, sr. director, HPC, C-DAC, India, said, "The upgraded Param Yuva installed at C-DAC, Pune by Netweb Technologies is based on Intel Xeon Phi Many Integrated Core architecture co-processors, and has become the most powerful supercomputer for India's scientific community with theoretical peak performance that exceeds half Petaflops. This largest system was supported by Department of IT, Ministry of Communications & IT, Govt of India and will provide unprecedented computing power for doing research in the field of Biotechnology, CFD, Seismic, Atmospheric, Computational Science, Disaster Mitigation, Engineering and other disciplines."