PARAM Shakti Supercomputer Commissioned at IIT Madras
On 3rd January 2026, IIT Madras inaugurated PARAM Shakti, one of the most powerful indigenously built supercomputers in India’s academic ecosystem, with a computing capacity of 3.1 petaflops.
- PARAM Shakti is the second most powerful academic supercomputer in India, after the system at Indian Institute of Science, which has a capacity of 3.3 petaflops.
- The system was built by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) and can perform 3.1 quadrillion calculations per second.
- A key distinction of PARAM Shakti is that its server architecture is fully indigenous, designed, developed and built in ....
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