Chennai: Atos, a leading player in digital transformation, has announced that ‘PARAM Siddhi – AI’ at the C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing), an organisation under Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, is placed 63 on the Top 500 ranking, making it officially India’s largest and fastest supercomputer.
As the integration partner, Atos, and experts from C-DAC ensured that the system was implemented and operationalised in an optimal timeframe.
Named ‘PARAM Siddhi – AI’, this initiative is established with focus on Artificial
Intelligence (AI) computing under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), an initiative jointly steered by Ministry of Electronics and IT and Department of Science and Technology (DST) to strengthen national technological capabilities in High Performance Computing.
“The state-of-the-art largest HPC-AI infrastructure of the country PARAM Siddhi – AI, equipped with the latest next generation technologies and C-DAC indigenous solutions implemented under National Supercomputing Mission will be dedicated for research to the Academia, Scientific and Research Community, MSMEs, Industry and the Start-ups encompassing all the areas of Artificial Intelligence including Natural Language Processing, Surveillance and Image Processing, Automotive industry, Healthcare, Robotics, Computer Vision, Recommender Systems, Education, Agriculture, Space, Defence and National Security,” said Hemant Darbari, Director General, C-DAC.