The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur is the first academic institution to get supercomputing facility under the National Supercomputing Mission.
This will provide large computational support to users to carry out both research and teaching activities that involve state-of-the-art High Performance Computing (HPC).
It will usher in a new age in research and innovation in the country.
The Peta-Flop new system with both CPU and CPU-GPU based servers along with the already existing HPC equipment will provide about 1.5 Peta-Flop capacity support to several areas where the researchers of IIT-KGP are actively involved.
The Institute is setting up a new Centre for Computational and Data Sciences (CCDS) around such a supercomputing platform to build, manage and operate the HPC facility.
The institution is engaged in research in several areas of national importance requiring large computational (both hardware and software) support.
"The facility will cover cutting-edge research scope in different inter-disciplinary areas like bio molecular simulations, drug design and bio-informatics.
Also on the anvil are climate change and digital earth, geo-scientific exploration, infrastructure design and sustainable cities.
CCDS will also focus on education and capacity building. IIT-KGP is the nodal centre for HPC-related educational activities by NSM.
NSM: Know More- The objective of NSM is to achieve a self-reliant supercomputing platform in the country and to develop and expand the scope of using HPC systems to solve complex problems of national importance in different fields of science and technology.
- The initiative is supported by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc).
- The mission envisages building supercomputing capacity and capability in the country.
- It has an estimated budget of INR 4,500 crore over a period of seven years.
