PARAM Siddhi-AI

The NPSF, C-DAC in Pune has commissioned the fastest HPC/AI system in India, the PARAM Siddhi-AI system, as part of the NSM initiative. This system comprises 336 NVIDIA A100 GPUs and is a dense GPU compute resource used for executing popular AI and HPC workloads. The configuration of the system includes 42 compute nodes of NVIDIA DGX-A100, each having 2 AMD EPYC CPUs, 8 A100 GPUs and 1 TB RAM. The system has a total peak computing capacity of 6.745 Peta Flops (DP) and 210 PF (AI) performance, with 42 compute nodes and 1 login node.

PARAM Siddhi-AI system, at C-DAC is aimed to serve as AI / HPC specific Cloud Computing Infrastructure for INDIA subsuming academia, R&D institutes and start-ups. The system is a centralized facility to ensure increased accessibility and utilization as well as ability to support large scale and more diverse R&D projects in the AI and HPC domains and is dedicated to address India Specific Real-Life Problems

The facility would also enable storing of India's massive data sets from areas like healthcare, agriculture locally in a high throughput and efficient storage.

The use cases for PARAM Siddhi-AI system varies from Big Data Analytics to specialized AI / HPC solutions across multiple domains viz. Healthcare (precision diagnostics, non-invasive diagnostics etc.), Agriculture (precision agriculture, crop infestations, advanced agronomic advisory etc.), weather forecasting, security and surveillance, financial inclusion and other services (fraud detection), infrastructural tools i.e. NLP etc.