1. Announced in 2015.
2. Aim to connect national academic and R&D institutions with a grid of more than 70 high-performance computing facilities at an estimated cost of Rs. 4,500 crores over the period of seven years by 2022.
3. It is jointly steered by the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) and Department of Science and Technology (DST - Ministry of Science and Technology) and implemented by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.
ЁЯФ╣ Features
1. To improve the number of supercomputers owned by India.
2. These supercomputers will also be networked on the National Supercomputing grid over the National Knowledge Network (NKN).
3. The NKN connects academic institutions and R&D labs over a high-speed network.
4. To build a strong base of 20,000 skilled persons over the next five years
ЁЯФ╣ Recent Developments
1. PARAM Shivay was deployed at IIT (BHU)
2. PARAM Shakti was deployed at IIT Kharagpur
3. PARAM Brahma was deployed at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune
4. PARAM Yukti
5. PARAM Sanganak was deployed at IIT Kanpur
6. PARAM Siddhi-AI [ranked 63rd among most powerful supercomputers in the world]
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