On December 26, 2025, PARAM Rudra supercomputer, a state-of-the-art High-Performance Computing (HPC) system, was launched at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Patna(Bihar), marking the first PARAM RUDRA supercomputer in Bihar.
- The launch ceremony was presided over by Amitesh Kumar Sinha, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
Exam Hints:
- What? Supercomputer Param Rudra Unveiled
- Where? IIT-Patna in Patna (Bihar)
- Who? Amitesh Kumar Sinha, Additional Secretary, MeitY
- Significance: First PARAM Rudra in Bihar
- Mission: National Supercomputing Mission (NSM)
- Implementation: MeitY and DST; C-DAC and IISc Bengaluru as nodal agencies.
PARAM Rudra at IIT Patna:
Background: In May 2023, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between IIT Patna and Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), under MeitY, to set up the supercomputer PARAM Rudra.
Indigenous Development: It operates at 838 teraflops and uses indigenously developed components and software, assembled in line with National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).
Research Capabilities: The PARAM Rudra system at IIT Patna enables research capabilities benefiting around 60 faculty members and 400 students across 10 departments.
Areas of Work: It will support work in many advanced areas such as Computational astrobiology & astrochemistry, material design & molecular electronics, computational fluid mechanics & nano-bio research, AI and data science, and Quantum computing.
About PARAM Rudra:
Framework: PARAM Rudra is a high-performance supercomputer developed in India under the NSM. It is built using indigenous Rudra servers and software stack, promoting self-reliance in HPC technology.
Name Significance: “PARAM(PARAllel Machine), a Sanskrit-derived term meaning “supreme”)” refers to supreme, ultimate, or highest in Sanskrit. “Rudra” is the Vedic name of Lord Shiva, the Hindu god.
Features: It is equipped with high-end Intel Xeon Central Processing Unit (CPUs), NVIDIA A100 Graphics Processing Unit (GPUs) for accelerated Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and simulation workloads.
- It also includes large Random Access Memory (RAM) with parallel Lustre storage, high-speed InfiniBand interconnects, and delivers petaflop-scale (1015 Floating Point Operations Per Second, FLOPS) computing performance.
Previous Deployment: In 2024, PARAM Rudra supercomputers were launched at Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), Pune(Maharashtra); Inter University Accelerator Centre (IUAC) (Delhi); and S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata (West Bengal, WB).
About National Supercomputing Mission(NSM):
Launch: It is a flagship initiative of the Government of India (GoI) launched in 2015, with a total outlay of Rs.4,500 crore.
- As of December 2025, 37 supercomputers with 39 petaFLOPS capacity have been deployed nationwide under the NSM, supporting over 12,000 researchers.
Implementation: It is jointly implemented by the MeitY and the Department of Science and Technology (DST), under the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoS&T), with C-DAC and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru(Karnataka) as the nodal implementing agency.
About Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY):
Union Minister – Ashwini Vaishnaw (Rajya Sabha – Odisha)
Minister of State (MoS) – Jitin Prasada (Constituency – Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh, UP)
