IIT Patna Gets 'Param Rudra': Supercomputer 1 Lakh Times Faster Than Mobile

• IIT Patna installs 'Param Rudra' supercomputer as part of the National Supercomputing Mission, a historic achievement for Bihar and Purvanchal.
• 'Param Rudra' boasts 838 teraflops capacity, performing 838 trillion calculations per second, making it 1 lakh times faster than a mobile phone.
• Features include 180 high-performance compute nodes, GPUs, high-memory nodes, and 1 petabyte storage, with over 50% indigenous components and C-DAC developed software.
• It will accelerate complex research in weather forecasting, medical science, AI, bioinformatics, and quantum computing, benefiting IIT Patna's 60 teachers and 400 students.
• India now has 37 supercomputers with 39 petaflops capacity, with 10 more planned to boost national research capabilities to over 100 petaflops.

Why It Matters: IIT Patna's 'Param Rudra' supercomputer significantly boosts India's research capabilities with its immense speed.