india's 1st supercomputer

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Param is a series of indigenous supercomputers from India developed by C-DAC. The latest supercomputer in the series is Param Ishaan. In Sanskrit, param means "supreme".

Ultimate series

Ultimate 8000

The Paramos 8000, released in 1991, used the Inmos T800 transporter. A new and innovative microprocessor was designed for parallel processing in the transputer. It was a variable configuration, architecture with a distributed memory MIMD with an interconnection network. It had 64 CPUs exported to Germany, Britain, and Russia.

Param 8600

The Param 8600 was an improvement over the Param 8000. It was a 256 CPU computer. For every four Inmos T800, it had an Intel i860 co-processor. This resulted in a peak of 5 GFLOPS in vector processing. Many of these models were exported.

Ultimate 9900 / ss

The Param 9900 / SS was designed to be an MPP system. SuperSPARC 2 processor was used in this. The design was changed to be modular so that new processors can be incorporated easily. Typically, it used 32–40 processors but, using the Clos network topology, it could be extended to 200 CPUs. The ultimate 9900 / US was the UltraSPARC version, and the ultimate 9900 / AA was a DEC alpha version.

Ultimate 10000

In 1998, the ultimate 10000 was unveiled. The ultimate 10000 used several independent nodes, each based on Sun Enterprise 250 servers, and each server had two 400 MHz UltraSPARC 2 processors. The base configuration had three compute nodes and a server node. The maximum speed of this base system was 6.4 GFLOPS. A typical system would have included 160 CPUs and could be capable of up to 100 GFLOPS but, it was easily scalable to the TFLOP series. It was exported to Russia and Singapore.

Param Padma

Param Padma (the Padma means "lotus" in Sanskrit) was introduced in April 2003. It was equipped with a peak speed of 1024 GFLOPS (about 1 TFLOP) and 1 TB of peak storage. It used 248 IBM Power4 CPUs of 1 GHz. Was done. The operating system was IBM AIX 5.1L. It used PARAMnet 2 as its primary interconnect. It was the first Indian supercomputer to exceed the 1 TFLOP limit.

Ultimate youth

Param Yuva was introduced in November 2008. Its maximum Sustainable Speed ​​(Rmax) is 38.1 TFLOPS and Peak Speed ​​(Rpeak) is 54 TFLOPS. It has 4608 cores based on the Intel 73XX of 2.9 GHz. Its storage capacity ranges from 25 TB to 200 TB. It uses PARAMnet 3 as the primary interconnect.