About PARAM Smriti
The supercomputer of 838 TFLOPS capacity, built at the cost of Rs 32.5 crore under the National Super Computing Mission at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Banaras Hindu University (BHU).
PARAM Smriti Details
| System Specifications | |
|---|---|
| Theoretical Peak Floating-point Performance Total (Rpeak) | 838 TFLOPS |
| 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 | 10 nos. |
| CPU only Compute Nodes (Memory) | 107 nos. (192GB) |
| GPU Nodes (Memory) | 10 nos. (192GB) |
| High Memory Compute Nodes | 39 nos. (768GB) |
| Total Memory | 52.416 TB |
| Interconnect | Primary: 100Gbps Mellanox Infiniband Interconnect network 100% non-blocking, fat tree topology Secondary: 10G/1G Ethernet Network Management network: 1G Ethernet |
| Storage | 1PiB PFS based storage |
| CPU Only Compute Nodes | |
|---|---|
| Nodes | 107 |
| Cores | 5136 |
| Compute Power of Rpeak | 476.6 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 | 10 |
| CPU Cores | 400 |
| CUDA Cores | 102400 |
| Rpeak | CPU 32 TFLOPS + GPU 156 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 | 39 |
| CPU Cores | 1872 |
| Compute Power of Rpeak | 173.7 TFLOPS |
| Each Node with | 2 X Intel Xeon Cascadelake 8268, 24 cores, 2.9 GHz, processors 768 GB Memory 480 GB SSD |
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
Deep Learning Libraries
- cuDNN, TensorFlow, Theano
Dependency Libraries
- NetCDF, PNETCDF, Jasper, HDF5, Tcl, Boost, FFTW
Support
For any support, contact: smriti.support@nabi.res.in
PARAM Smriti 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 29 publications that have been published using PARAM Smriti till 2023.