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C-DAC launches PARAM Yuva-II

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C-DAC has launched PARAM Yuva - II, the new 500 TeraFlop version of its earlier PARAM Yuva at C-DAC Pune,

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J Satyanarayana, secretary, Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), government of India dedicated the new and powerful supercomputer to the high performance computing (HPC) user community in the country.

With this launch, C-DAC has also becomes the first R&D institution in India to cross the 500 TF milestone. The launch of PARAM Yuva II was conducted as part of the Workshop on National Mission on Supercomputing being organized by C-DAC, Pune. Also present on the occasion were Prof N Balakrishnan, associate director, IISc; Prof Rajat Moona, director general, C-DAC, Dr Pradeep K Sinha, senior director (HPC); Dr Hemant Darbari, executive director, C-DAC, Pune; Dr Sarat C Babu, executive director, C-DAC, Bengaluru; and other senior officials from R&D institutions across the nation.

Speaking on the occasion of the launch, Satyanarayana congratulated C-DAC for achieving the 500 TF compute power, and reiterated the support of the Indian government to "establish India's place as the primary destination for advanced R&D across the global landscape.

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PARAM Yuva - II provides more than half a Petaflop of raw compute power using hybrid compute technology with compute co-processor and hardware accelerators. The interconnection network comprises of home grown PARAMNet-III and Infiniband FDR System Area Network. PARAM Yuva -II has 200 Terabytes of high performance storage and support software for parallel computing.

Addressing the media, Prof Rajat Moona, director general, C-DAC expressed his happiness and "pride to be able to deliver India's first 500 TF supercomputer through C-DAC."

This system is designed to solve large and complex computational problems. This will provide an opportunity for new scientific endeavors for the research community. By making use of hybrid technology, the increase in peak compute power from 54 Teraflop/s to 524 Teraflop/s has been achieved without any significant change in the electrical power consumed by the facility.

The system achieved a sustained performance of 360.8 Teraflop/s on Community standard Linpack benchmark. In comparison to November 2012 list of world's Top 500 supercomputers, PARAM Yuva - II would have stood at 62nd position in the world and at number 1 position in the country. In terms of power efficiency, it is better than most supercomputing systems and would have achieved 33rd position in the November 2012 List of Top Green 500 supercomputers of the world.

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