Param Porul

Why in News?

•  A supercomputer named Param Porul was inaugurated at NIT (National Institute of Technology) Tiruchirappalli under the National Supercomputing Mission. 

About

• Param Porul is a state-of-the-art supercomputer developed under Phase II of the National Supercomputing Mission.

• The National Supercomputing Mission is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and the Department of Science and Technology.

• The components of the system have been manufactured and assembled within the country along with an indigenous software stack developed by C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing). 

• This is in line with the vision of Make in India.

• Param Porul system is based on Direct Contact Liquid Cooling technology to obtain high power usage effectiveness and thereby reduce the operational cost. 

• It has a wide range of applications such as:

  • Weather and Climate assessment

  • Bioinformatics

  • Computational Chemistry

  • Molecular dynamics

  • Material sciences

  • Computational fluid dynamics

  • Healthcare sector

  • Agriculture

  • Financial services