PARAM Yuva supercomputer now open to private sector

PARAM Yuva,the new addition to the PARAM series of supercomputers.

PARAM Yuva,the new addition to the PARAM series of supercomputers,can now be used by R&D laboratories from the private sector. With an enhanced storage capacity of 200 TB from 25 TB,a large number of users can use it for data processing and storage at the same time.

The Yuva system has the capacity to assimilate data for 4,000 CPU cores and thus has a computational capacity larger than any of the supercomputers so far. After becoming functional in December 2009,this is the first time that projects other than those of public sector bodies will also be accepted for PARAM Yuva,with a certain user fees.

Pradeep Sinha,senior director,high performance computation,Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC ),said,Like other computers,it is not for an individual user,but for large systems involving parallel processing of data,which requires combining many small computers. So far,academic and research institutions like the IITs,National Chemical Laboratory,Indian Meteorological Department and various others have been using Yuva. But with an expansion in the storage space,we can expand further.

To use PARAM Yuva,one has to submit a proposal called the technical affiliation scheme to the CDAC team,Once it is accepted,a user ID is given. The user can then use the services and access data either through the Internet or the National Knowledge Network (NKN),the multi-gigabyte pan-Indian resource sharing network. An Internet connection does not generally support such large bulk of data and the speed can be very slow, added Sinha.

So far the maximum user capacity was up to 30-40 projects but now it is expected to go up to 100 users.

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