Top 10 Supercomputers used by India.
                     Top Supercomputers used 
by India
Supercomputing in India
• In the late 1980s, India began its supercomputer programme 
with the help of some of the best technicians at the Centre for 
Development of Telematics (C-DOT). Some of the 
supercomputers used in India are listed.
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Colour Boson (Cray XC-30)
• This supercomputer is used at the TIFR in Mumbai. 
With a total storage of 1.1 PB, it is being used for 
research on quark-boson, which is one of the mystery 
particles related to formation of the world.
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HPC
• HPC is a supercomputer used at IIT Delhi. It is a GPU-centric 
high performance system developed by NVIDIA along with a 
team of IIT Delhi based on GPU Tesla platform. 
PARAM Ishan
• This is another powerful supercomputer located at IIT 
Guwahati. It was jointly created by IIT-G and CDAC. It is 
being used for R&D in computational chemistry, fluid 
dynamics and much more.
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PARAM Kanchenjunga
• Another supercomputer in the PARAM series, this 
supercomputer was built by Pune-based CDAC and the Ministry 
of Communications & IT, at NIT Sikkim. It has the latest Intel 
processors and accelerator technologies.
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PARAM Shivay
• This supercomputer was inaugurated in 2019 at the IIT-BHU, 
Varanasi and is equipped with the latest Intel processors, 
high memory computer nodes and great performance. 
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PARAM Yuva II
• PARAM Yuva II is another supercomputer which was built to 
carry out research in space, seismic data analysis, 
aeronautics, pharmaceuticals and bioinformatics.
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Virgo
• Virgo was built for IIT Madras which is claimed to be the 
fastest cluster at an educational institute in India. It is being 
used for research in ocean modeling, VLSI, spectroscopy 
and much more.
Sahasrat
• This is a Cray XC40 model supercomputer at the 
Supercomputer Education and Research Centre (SERC) at 
the Indian Institute of Science. The total cost for building it 
was around Rs 82 crores.
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