PARAM ANANTA Supercomputer

PARAM Ananta Supercomputer was commissioned in May 2022 at IIT Gandhinagar under the National Supercomputing Mission coordinated by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. The installation and commissioning of the facility were done by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in coordination with IIT Gandhinagar. The facility consists of 7408 CPU cores and 20 NVIDIA V100 GPU cards. Further, PARAM Ananta is equipped with 52 terabytes of RAM and 1 PiB of usable SAN storage space. The peak performance of the PARAM Ananta Supercomputer is 838 TF. It supports applications from fields like Astronomy & Astrophysics, Atomic & Molecular Sciences, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Chemical Sciences, Climate & Environment Sciences, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Computational Physics, Material Sciences, AI/ML/DL, Quantum Mechanics, Atmospheric/Ocean Modelling, and Structural Engineering Mechanics.

IIT GANDHINAGAR


PARAM ANANTA LAYOUT

Specification

Intel Xeon Cascadelake 8268

Nvidia V100

1 PiB Storage

100 Gbps EDR Infiniband

10 Gbps/ 1Gbps Network switch

PARAM ANANTA Details
Theoretical Peak Floating-Point Performance Total (Rpeak) 838 TFLOPS
Fully Qualified Domain Name paramananta.iitgn.ac.in
Base Specification 2 × Intel® Xeon® Cascadelake 826, 24 Cores, 2.9 GHz processor per node, 192 GB RAM, 480 GB SSD
Master/Service/Login Nodes 10 nos.
CPU-only Compute Nodes 107 nos. (192 GB RAM in each node)
GPU Compute Nodes 10 nos. (192 GB RAM in each node)
Graphics Card: 2 × NVIDIA V100 SMX2 (in each GPU node)
High Memory Compute Nodes 39 nos. (768 GB RAM in each node)
Total Memory (RAM) 52.416 TiB
Storage 1 PiB PFS-based Storage
Total CPU Core 7408
Total Compute Node 156
High-Speed Interconnect Primary: 100Gbps Mellanox EDR Infiniband Interconnect (100% non-blocking, fat tree topology)
Secondary: 10G/1G Ethernet Switch
Management Network: 1G Ethernet
Operating System CentOS 7.9

PARAM ANANTA Queuing System

Partition Name Timelimit Nodelist Max CPU/GPU/Storage/Job per user
DEBUG 5 Hours cn[001-002]
  • 24 CPU cores per user.
SMALL 3 Days cn[003-020]
  • 240 CPU cores per user.
  • 2 GPU cards per user
  • No job limit has been enforced.
  • For storage, every user has:
    200 GB on scratch and 50 GB on home
MEDIUM 5 Days cn[021-060]
LARGE 10 Days cn[061-110]
HIGHMEMORY 10 Days hm[001-039]
GPU 2 Days gpu[001-010]

Helpdesk

For any queries, raise a ticket in the helpdesk-portal
Email: anantasupport@iitgn.ac.in

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