PARAM-ISHAN Super Computer Launched
Union Human Resource
Development Minister Prakash Javadekar launched the Param-Ishan supercomputing
facility at IIT, Guwahati on September 19, 2016.
Details:
- It is a super computing facility launched at IIT,
Guwahati. PARAM-ISHAN have power of 250 Teraflops and three hundred tera
bites capacity and this will not only augment the research initiatives in
the Institute, but also help in creating an ecosystem for attracting right
talents to the field of research.
- PARAM-ISHAN can be used in the application areas
like Computational Chemistry, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Computational
Electromagnetic, Civil Engineering Structures, Nana-block Self Assemble,
Optimization etc.
- North East India receives heavy rainfall during
monsoon, which leads to flooding and landslides.
- PARAM-ISHAN can also be used for Weather, climate modeling and seismic data processing.
