Overview
- DST Secretary Abhay Karandikar inaugurated the 3‑petaFLOPS PARAM Rudra at IIT Bombay on January 8, built on indigenously designed Rudra servers with C‑DAC’s software stack and direct contact liquid cooling.
- MeitY Secretary S. Krishnan launched PARAM SHAKTI at IIT Madras on January 3, a 3.1‑petaFLOPS system fully developed and manufactured in India that runs on an open‑source stack including AlmaLinux.
- IIT Madras reports the system has been operational since May 2025 with over 80% utilisation, with a quoted power usage effectiveness between 1.2 and 1.4.
- With the IIT Bombay addition, NSM officials say 38 supercomputers delivering a cumulative 44 petaFLOPS have now been commissioned nationwide.
- IIT Bombay expects the new facility to benefit more than 200 faculty and about 1,200 students and to support AI, biotechnology, materials and other research, as policy leaders promote diverse GPU architectures and plan larger indigenous builds in Bengaluru, IIT Delhi and IIT Jammu.