ParamSheersh

A High Performance Computer System, created by C-DAC and installed at Computer Centre, NEHU. PARAM Sheersh is funded by Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India under the North East Sector Projects.
The facility aims at conducting research in strategic areas of Weather, Seismic, Bio-informatics, Physics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Material Sciences, Life Sciences etc. The facility shall serve as a core backbone platform for students, faculty and researchers of the region to develop competency skills for solving grand challenge problems in the above-mentioned areas.
PARAM Sheersh facility consists of 4 TF peak supercomputing power along with 10 TB High Performance storage scratch space and 24 TB on-line storage, the facility has C-DAC’s indigenously designed and developed low latency PARAMNet-3 switch along with NIC, drivers, software etc. Back-up network based on Infiniband is also present. The management capability is over Gigabit Ethernet.
The system primarily has a lot of open source tools, software along with C-DAC’s own Resource access and Management Portal. The entire environment including the data centre and associated equipments has been established by C-DAC.