India's C-DAC Launches World’s First Compact Supercomputing (HPC) System 'PARAM Shavak'

[Chanakya's_Chant]

C-DAC launches ‘world’s most compact supercomputing system’

Commemorating the first celebrations of Good Governance Day under the aegis of the Ministry of Communications and IT, Government of India, at New Delhi, the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) unveiled the world’'s most compact supercomputing system today. This new HPC solution christened as PARAM Shavak was launched at the hands of Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Hon'ble Minister for Communications & IT, Government of India at the event.

The product PARAM Shavak - Supercomputer in a Box solution, aims to provide computational resource (Capacity building) with advanced technologies to perform the high-end computations on a larger scale for the scientific, engineering and academic programmes.

PARAM Shavak is a ready-to-use affordable supercomputer pre-loaded with all the required system software and applications from selected scientific and engineering domains. The system is designed to be enabling tool for research organizations as well as academic institutions that need High Performance Computing (HPC) for education and research. It aims to provide computational resource with advanced technologies at affordable cost to perform the high-end computations for the scientific, engineering and academic programmes to address and catalyze the research using modelling, simulation and data analysis.

There is a growing recognition worldwide, that Information Technology, and in particular the high performance computing (HPC) for computational simulation and modelling, is the key technology resource for economic growth, environmental understanding, scientific and engineering research breakthroughs, and for sustaining competitiveness in strategic areas. Consequently, several nations are taking initiatives to provide high-end computing resources for their scientists and engineers for high-end educational and research purposes.

Addressing the media, Prof Rajat Moona, Director General, C-DAC, said that PARAM Shavak "is the perfect compromise between high performance computing requirements and infrastructure availability. The compact nature of its design makes it an ideal solution for multiple environments both for research as well as for training. We are hopeful that the research and academic institutes will see the potential of this tool to ramp up their in-house research and scale new challenges. Our primary aim is to enhance the HPC ecosystem in the country through the use of PARAM Shavak and raise the bar of R&D in the country".

Speaking on the occasion, Shri Sanjay Wandhekar, Associate Director & HoD, HPC, C-DAC, Pune added that the Param Shavak could be "placed in a standard office workspace. It comes with a handful of value additions from C-DAC viz. indigenously developed software with most of the features that can be found in a full blown HPC clusters like job schedulers, compilers, parallel libraries, MPI, resource managers, some of the commonly used HPC applications in engineering and scientific domains, etc".

The system consists of at least 2 multicore CPUs each with at least 10 cores along with either one or two number of many core or GPU accelerator cards. The entire configuration is available in a single server in a table top model. Regardless to the traditional HPC systems/supercomputers, this system does not require specific support infrastructure like precision air-conditioned environment, controlled humidity etc.

Source: C-DAC launches ‘world’s most compact supercomputing system’ | The Indian Express
World’s first compact and energy efficient supercomputer launched by C-DAC

 

[Srinivas]

Nice ... at last we have a good product which we can sell !

Once the chip manufacturing industry starts delivering the electronic chips needed, we can churn out many quality products into the market.

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

Nice ... at last we have a good product which we can sell !

Once the chip manufacturing industry starts delivering the electronic chips needed, we can churn out many quality products into the market.

India is going step by step - India is set to get its first semiconductor wafer fabrication manufacturing facility by late 2017 in Prantij of Sabarkantha district.

Prantij to house state's 1st semiconductor wafer unit - The Times of India

Though C-DAC plans to develop its own microprocessor design unit to cater to the growing demand for electronic devices but funding problems still remain. CDAC is looking “at niche markets to supply it (the in-house microprocessor), for particular applications such as Internet of Things (IoT), cameras, sensors and embedded controller systems, and then maybe grow from there”.

CDAC plans to set up local unit to design microprocessors - Livemint

@jamahir Your take

 

[magudi]

Cool

 

[jamahir]

@jamahir Your take

naughty boy.

India is going step by step - India is set to get its first semiconductor wafer fabrication manufacturing facility by late 2017 in Prantij of Sabarkantha district.

Prantij to house state's 1st semiconductor wafer unit - The Times of India

Though C-DAC plans to develop its own microprocessor design unit to cater to the growing demand for electronic devices but funding problems still remain. CDAC is looking “at niche markets to supply it (the in-house microprocessor), for particular applications such as Internet of Things (IoT), cameras, sensors and embedded controller systems, and then maybe grow from there”.

CDAC plans to set up local unit to design microprocessors - Livemint

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Prantij to house state's 1st semiconductor wafer unit

Piyush Mishra, TNN | Aug 11, 2014, 12.34AM IST

To be set up by Hindustan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (HSMC), the facility will employ over 25,000 people including 4,000 direct employees.

the "semiconductor fab unit" plan of hsmc is old, older than the 2014 in the article... according to one document from its website, they have a mou with infineon and siemens for purchase and set up of the machinery needed in such a factory.

even so, the point is what will they manufacture?? yet another derivation of arm processor?? or perhaps the sun opensparc processor implementation that the ministry of info. tech. had planned in 2009?? in either case, foreign design.

as ever with indian technology projects, this too is a job and college-course generating project than anything that will contribute to the world.

2. cdac is a useless agency whose greatest project is the "boss operating system", a linux derivation... what cdac is saying with its "processor" project is that it will be a minor device for specific usage, nothing general purpose like intel core... also, cdac didn't specify if this will be entirely a new design or just a smaller implementation of arm.

3. and this "internet of things" that cdac plans its chip for, is yet another of those mba-created buzzword like cloud computing, compliance... all noise and no substance... capitalist bullshit... why should everything be connected to the internet, i say... sophistication is removal of complications, not adding of them.

4. what happened to this drdo project "started" in 2010 ( India to develop its own futuristic computer operating system - timesofindia-economictimes )??

This "national effort" would be spearheaded by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in partnership with software companies in and around Bangalore, Hyderabad and Delhi as also academic institutions like Indian Institute of Science Bangalore and IIT Chennai, among others.

He said DRDO is putting in place a dedicated team of 50 software professionals in the Bangalore and Delhi software development centres to accomplish the task.

check for 2014 news of this project... chairman of drdo was repeating the same nonsense, with the addition that it would take five more years ( for what?? ).

5. what happened to this project ( Govt to chip in with India Microprocessor - timesofindia-economictimes )??

The project to make the India Microprocessor, as it is being tentatively called, will see scientists from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), and IIT Delhi coming together under the aegis of the department of IT.

An entity, to be called Zerone Corporation for now and with an initial investment of $200 million, will carry out the project, according to a government official involved in the process. A draft proposal in this regard is likely to be presented to the cabinet soon requesting funds, the official said on condition of anonymity.

The India Microprocessor is likely to adopt Sun Microsystem's Open Sparc open source chip design technology, along with Linux operating system and MySQL database software.

so not indigenous after all.

besides, what happened to this 2009 program?? this is 2015.

 

[Matrixx]

Great.......
waiting for Fabs to come so I can join them
No more US companies

 

[jamahir]

Great.......
waiting for Fabs to come so I can join them
No more US companies

huzoor, kyun naukri me time waste karna chahte hain... apni kaalej degree jalaaiye aur ek project group start keejiye, microprocessor design keejiye.

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

the "semiconductor fab unit" plan of hsmc is old, older than the 2014 in the article... according to one document from its website, they have a mou with infineon and siemens for purchase and set up of the machinery needed in such a factory.

It was granted approval by the cabinet only in 2014 -

Approval to establish two Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication Manufacturing Facilities in India

2. cdac is a useless agency whose greatest project is the "boss operating system", a linux derivation... what cdac is saying with its "processor" project is that it will be a minor device for specific usage, nothing general purpose like intel core or arm etc.

The greatest project of C-DAC has been the "PARAM-series Supercomputers" - As of 2008, 52 PARAMs have been deployed. Of these, 8 are located in Russia, Singapore, Germany and Canada. PARAMs have also been sold to Tanzania, Armenia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Ghana, Myanmar, Nepal, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.

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As far semiconductor manufacturing is concerned - The reason why there are less investments in this sector are many like 15% interest in India against 2-4% globally - and high power costs due to irregular power supply. These create a disability of about 20% for Indian manufacturers.

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But things are changing - To go full indigenous a huge investment is required which isn't possible for the GoI to commit as of now - the other way is much more economical and reliable - team up with overseas specialist firms and invite them to invest in the same which has till now worked out to be fairly good - like very recently Cricket Semiconductor committed $1 Billion for India's first analog electronic chip making plant to up in Madhya Pradesh.

India's first analog semiconductor fab in Madhya Pradesh

The Centre has also set up a Rs 10,000-crore fund to give subsidies of 20-25% of capital expenditure costs to companies setting up manufacturing facilities in the country.

 

[Matrixx]

huzoor, kyun naukri me time waste karna chahte hain... apni kaalej degree jalaaiye aur ek project group start keejiye, microprocessor design keejiye.

Aap to hamko seriously le liye

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

Capacity 2+ Teraflops

 

[TimeTraveller]

Nice Sir............

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

Nice Sir............

Hi,
Just out of curiosity - what do you do? student?

 

[A$HU]

If anyone from software industry please reply to this thread
Need help- How to start with open source C++ projects?

 

[nik141991]

Capacity 2+ Teraflops

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Great thread like always chanakya thanks

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

Great thread like always chanakya thanks

My pleasure! Though strange that no one reported it! - it was launched back on December 26 - Was going through C-DAC's Facebook page that thankfully I came across this news. Scientific and Technological Advancements are of utmost importance and the mainstream media should at least publicize them adequately