MeitY Launches ‘Param Shakti’ Supercomputing Facility at IIT Madras

Under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) launched 'Param Shakti' at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

• The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) launched 'Param Shakti' at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. This project has been funded under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).
• At the center of the new facility is Param Rudra, which is a 3.1-petaflop supercomputing system, built entirely in India using servers from C-DAC’s RUDRA series and an indigenous software stack running on open-source platforms like AlmaLinux.
• The mission has already installed 37 supercomputers in Indian institutions, and more are in the pipeline - including the largest planned system in Bengaluru.
• Operational since May, 2025, it is running at more than 80 percent utilization, providing service in research ranging from sub-atomic electronic structure calculation to large-scale structural simulation.
• It is now one of the most powerful computational systems available in Indian academic institutions.
• It has been built using servers from the RUDRA series of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and runs on an open-source software stack including AlmaLinux.
• Its performance is expected to support complex research in aerospace engineering, material science, climate modeling, drug discovery and advanced manufacturing.

Param Rudra

• Last month, the formal inauguration of Bihar’s first supercomputer ‘Param Rudra’ was done at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Patna. Supercomputers have not been installed at only one place, but at many places in India, which mainly include Delhi (IUAC), Kolkata (SNBNCBS), and Pune (NCRA-TIFR).

About the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM)

• Launch: 2015
• Objective: To connect national academic and R&D (research and development) institutions with a grid of more than 70 high-performance computing facilities.
• Supercomputers are networked on the National Supercomputing Grid over the National Knowledge Network (NKN).
• NSM is jointly run by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and MeitY.
• It is implemented by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.

India’s supercomputers

• PARAM 8000 is India’s first supercomputer.
• Param Pravega is the largest supercomputer.
• Param Shivay is the first indigenously built supercomputer.
• AIRAWAT is a general compute platform for AI research and knowledge assimilation.