Overview
- MeitY Secretary S. Krishnan inaugurated the PARAM RUDRA–powered facility on January 3 at IIT Madras, confirming peak performance of 3.1 petaflops using C-DAC’s indigenous RUDRA servers.
- The installation was fully developed and manufactured domestically and runs an open-source stack including AlmaLinux with indigenously built system software from C-DAC.
- Operational since May 2025, the system has logged over 80% utilisation with integrated round-the-clock power, advanced cooling and a fully managed data centre.
- Researchers are using the resource for large-scale simulations across aerospace, materials science, climate modelling, drug discovery, combustion studies, molecular dynamics and nuclear sciences.
- MeitY places the effort within NSM and IndiaAI goals to diversify GPU architectures, noting 37 systems deployed under NSM, while a separate IIT Bombay commissioning reported this week lifts the total to 38 with 44 petaflops nationwide.