PARAM Ganga

About PARAM Ganga

IIT Roorkee has established PARAM Ganga, a High-Performance Computing (HPC) system under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM). This supercomputer uses a heterogeneous and hybrid configuration of Intel Xeon Cascade Lake processors and NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU, with a total peak computing capacity of 1.66 (CPU+GPU+HM) PFLOPS performance. The system comprises 312 (CPU+GPU+HM) nodes that are connected using the Mellanox (HDR) InfiniBand interconnect network, with the Lustre parallel file system and CentOS 7.x operating system.

PARAM Ganga Details

System Specifications
Theoretical Peak Floating-point Performance Total (Rpeak) 1.67 PFLOPS
Base Specifications (Compute Nodes) 2 X Intel Xeon Cascadelake 8268, 24 Cores, 2.9 GHz, Processors per node, 192 GB Memory, 480 GB SSD
Master/Service/Login Nodes 20 nos.
CPU only Compute Nodes (Memory) 214 nos. (192GB)
GPU Nodes (Memory) 20 nos. (192GB)
High Memory Compute Nodes 78 nos. (768GB)
Total Memory 104.832 TB
Interconnect Primary: 100Gbps Mellanox Infiniband Interconnect network 100% non-blocking, fat tree topology
Secondary: 10G/1G Ethernet Network
Management network: 1G Ethernet
CPU Only Compute Nodes
Nodes 214
Cores 10272
Compute Power of Rpeak 953.2 TFLOPS
Each Node with 2 X Intel Xeon Cascadelake 8268, 24 cores, 2.9 GHz, processors
192 GB memory
480 GB SSD
GPU Only Compute Nodes
Nodes 20
CPU Cores 800
CUDA Cores 204800
Rpeak CPU 64 TFLOPS + GPU 312 TF
Each Node with 2 X Intel Xeon Skylake 6248, 20 cores, 2.5 GHz, processors
192 GB Memory
2 x NVIDIA V100 SXM2 GPU Cards
480 GB SSD
High Memory Compute Nodes
Nodes 78
CPU Cores 3744
Compute Power of Rpeak 347.33 TFLOPS
Each Node with 2 X Intel Xeon Cascadelake 8268, 24 cores, 2.9 GHz, processors
768 GB Memory
480 GB SSD


PARAM Ganga Architecture Diagram:

Software Stack:

Installed Applications/Libraries

HPC Applications
  • Bio-informatics: MUMmer, HMMER, MEME, PHYLIP, mpiBLAST, ClustalW
  • Molecular Dynamics: NAMD (for CPU and GPU), LAMMPS, GROMACS
  • CFD: OpenFOAM, SU2
  • Material Modeling, Quantum Chemistry: Quantum-Espresso, Abinit, CP2K, NWChem
  • Weather, Ocean, Climate: WRF-ARW, WPS (WRF), ARWPost (WRF), RegCM, MOM, ROMS
In-house Developed, Open-source Materials and Computational Chemistry (MCC) HPC Applications/Softwares
  • AMDKIIT : Linear scaling hybrid-DFT code for ab initio molecular dynamics
  • ANN-CI : Computational chemistry, code augmented by machine learning for studying complex biological systems
  • LITESOPH: Layer Integrated Toolkit and Engine for Simulations of Photo-induced phenomena is a toolkit for simulations of photo-induced phenomena
  • Mµ2Mech : It is a multiscale modeling approach combining atomistic and phase-field simulations for microstructure modeling during solid-state phase transformations
  • MTA* : Quantum chemistry code based on the fragmentation-based molecular tailoring approach
  • ( * MTA will be facilitated based on the Gaussian Institutional license. Kindly contact mscc-support@cdac.in for more details.)
Deep Learning Libraries
  • cuDNN, TensorFlow, Theano
Dependency Libraries
  • NetCDF, PNETCDF, Jasper, HDF5, Tcl, Boost, FFTW

Support

For any support, contact: gangasupport@iitr.ac.in

PARAM Ganga Usage Report

Link To Be Added

*Note: The above data is coming from C-Chakshu (Multi Cluster Monitoring Platform)

Publication

There are a total of 61 publications that have been published using PARAM Ganga till 2023.