IIT Guwahati , C-DAC sign MoU for supercomputing facility

The new supercomputer with “650 TFLOPS is more powerful and a technologically superior facility”, which will play an important role in the field of scientific and engineering applications, it said. IIT-G’s Computer and Communication Centre is already equipped with ‘Param Ishan’, a ‘250 TF’ supercomputer. The institute will organise training courses to popularise the use and applications of supercomputers in the northeastern region, the release said.

“We are also planning to link this facility with our new inter-disciplinary master programme on data sciences jointly initiated by the Departments of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering and Mathematics,” Sitharam added. The supercomputing facility is a part of the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).

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Established by Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati, IITG) is a public technical and research university is located in Guwahati, in the state of Assam in India. It is the sixth Indian Institute of Technology established in India. IIT Guwahati is officially recognised as an Institute of National Importance by the government of India.IIT Guwahati has been ranked 7^th both in Engineering and Overall category in NIRF India Rankings 2020, released on June 11, 2020.