Lok Sabha Question No. 1712 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-12-10
Subject: Procurements for Supercomputers
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: Shri Tangella Uday Srinivas

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1712

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 10.12.2025

## PROCUREMENTS FOR SUPERCOMPUTERS

## 1712.  SHRI TANGELLA UDAY SRINIVAS:

Will the Minister of ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of supercomputers established under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) since inception along with their application areas and funds allocated and utilised, year and State-wise;
- (b) whether any new proposals for establishing supercomputers have been received during the last five years;
- (c) if so, the details thereof with status of proposals approved, rejected, or under progress, along with funds allocated, released and utilised, year, State and institute-wise;
- (d)  whether  the  Government  procures  hardware  or  engages  private/foreign  firms  for  setting  up supercomputers;
- (e) if so, the details of critical components procured or services hired from private or foreign firms along with source countries;
- (f) the details of funds allocated, released and utilised for such procurement during the last five years, year and project-wise;
- (g)  whether  the  Government  proposes  to  establish  domestic  manufacturing  units  for  critical supercomputing hardware; and
- (h) if so, the number of such units planned or approved, State-wise along with funds allocated, released and utilised?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI JITIN PRASADA)

(a) to (h): The vision of Hon'ble Prime Minister is to achieve self -reliance in supercomputing. This is ensured  by  giving  access  to  state-of-the-art  supercomputing  facilities  to  researchers  (academia  and startups) as well as ensuring the manufacturing of critical sub-components in India.

The National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) was launched in April 2015 with an outlay of ₹4,500 crore. It  is  jointly implemented by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Department  of  Science  and  Technology  (DST)  through  the  Centre  for  Development  of  Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.

## Deployment and Utilization of Supercomputers

So far, 37 supercomputers with a total computing power of 40 Petaflops have been deployed under the NSM. In the last five years alone, 34 supercomputers have been deployed.

State and Year-wise list of supercomputers deployed are attached at Annexure -I.

In addition, deployment of 6 new supercomputing systems is in progress with the total outlay of Rs. 680 Cr.

These systems are set up in leading institutions like IISc, IITs, C-DAC, R&D Labs and also in several Tier-II and Tier-III cities across the country.

## PARAM Rudra

'PARAM Rudra' series of supercomputers are built using indigenously designed and manufactured High -Performance Computing 'Rudra' servers, along with an indigenously developed system software stack.

These supercomputers are available to  the  young  researchers,  scientists  and  engineers  for  facilitating advanced studies in physics, earth sciences and cosmology.

The systems are being used efficiently, with most running at over 81% capacity and few exceeding 95%. These supercomputers have supported over 13,000 researchers, including more than 1,700 PhD scholars from over 260 academic and research institutions.

More than one crore compute jobs have been completed, and as a result over 1,500 research papers have been published in reputed journals.

Startups and MSMEs are also using these systems to boost their HPC-based projects.

These supercomputers are driving advanced research in drug discovery, disaster management, energy security,  climate  modelling,  astronomy,  computational  chemistry,  fluid  dynamics,  materials  research, Aerospace Engineering and many other research areas.

## Indigenous Development and Technological Achievements

Under the NSM, a complete ecosystem has been established with the focused goal of achieving selfreliance in supercomputing. It includes, inter alia, the design, development, and manufacturing of critical supercomputing sub-components, as follows:

1. The Rudra Server Board, a key supercomputing component, has been indigenously designed and developed by C-DAC. The technology of the Rudra server has been transferred to three Indian Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) partners for manufacturing and such servers are already being manufactured in India.
2. High-speed inter communication network between computer nodes has been developed and tested with  speeds  of  40  Gbps  and  100  Gbps  to  enhance  data  transfer  and  communication  between computing nodes, strengthening India's supercomputing capabilities.
3. Further,  cooling  technology  has  been  indigenously  developed,  demonstrated  and  is  in  the deployment stage.
4. Complete  HPC  system  software  stack  is  also  developed  and  has  been  integrated  with  the supercomputing systems.
5. PARAM Shavak, a supercomputing-in-a-box has been designed, developed and manufactured in the  country  to  cater  to  the  HPC  and  AI  compute  need  of  the  students,  researchers  from  the engineering colleges and universities.
6. HPC applications of National Importance have been developed and deployed in various domains i.e. NSM Platform for Genomics and Drug Discovery, Flood Forecasting and Disaster Management, Urban  Environment  and  Weather  Modelling,  Seismic  Data  Processing  System  for  Oil  &  Gas, Material science along with the end users i.e. India Meteorological Department (IMD), Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Central Water Commission (CWC), Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Ministry of Ayush.
7. To further strengthening the indigenous capabilities, design and development of HPC processors, accelerators and storage has been initiated.

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## Annexure-I

## Details of Supercomputers deployed under NSM with compute capacity

|   Sl. No. | State/UT      | Institution                     | Supercomputer       | Compute Capacity   |   Year |
|-----------|---------------|---------------------------------|---------------------|--------------------|--------|
|         1 | Maharashtra   | C-DAC, Pune                     | SANGAM Testbed      | 150 TF             |   2017 |
|         2 | Maharashtra   | C-DAC, Pune                     | PARAM Shrestha      | 100 TF             |   2018 |
|         3 | Uttar Pradesh | IIT(BHU), Varanasi              | PARAM Shivay        | 838 TF             |   2019 |
|         4 | Maharashtra   | C-DAC Pune National AI Facility | PARAM Siddhi        | 6.5 PF / 210 AI PF |   2020 |
|         5 | Karnataka     | JNCASR, Bangalore               | PARAM Yukti         | 1.8 PF             |   2020 |
|         6 | Maharashtra   | IISER Pune                      | PARAM Brahma        | 1.7 PF             |   2020 |
|         7 | West Bengal   | IIT Kharagpur                   | PARAM Shakti        | 1.66 PF            |   2020 |
|         8 | Uttar Pradesh | IIT Kanpur                      | PARAM Sanganak      | 1.66 PF            |   2020 |
|         9 | Maharashtra   | C-DAC Pune                      | PARAM Embrio        | 100 TF             |   2020 |
|        10 | Maharashtra   | C-DAC Pune                      | PARAM Neel          | 100 TF             |   2020 |
|        11 | Tamil Nadu    | SETS Chennai                    | PARAM Spoorthi      | 100 TF             |   2020 |
|        12 | Karnataka     | C-DAC Bangalore                 | System Software Lab | 82 TF              |   2020 |
|        13 | Maharashtra   | C-DAC Pune                      | PARAM Sampooran     | 27 TF              |   2020 |
|        14 | Telangana     | IIT Hyderabad                   | PARAM Seva          | 838 TF             |   2021 |
|        15 | Punjab        | NABI Mohali                     | PARAM Smriti        | 838 TF             |   2021 |

| 16.   | Karnataka        | C-DAC Bangalore MSME Facility   | PARAM Utkarsh               | 838 TF          | 2021   |
|-------|------------------|---------------------------------|-----------------------------|-----------------|--------|
| 17.   | Maharashtra      | C-DAC Pune                      | Bioinformatics R&D Facility | 230 TF          | 2021   |
| 18.   | Karnataka        | IISc Bangalore                  | PARAM Pravega               | 3.3 PF          | 2022   |
| 19.   | Uttarakhand      | IIT Roorkee                     | PARAM Ganga                 | 1.66 PF         | 2022   |
| 20.   | Gujarat          | IIT Gandhinagar                 | PARAM Ananta                | 838 TF          | 2022   |
| 21.   | Tamil Nadu       | NIT Trichy                      | PARAM Porul                 | 838 TF          | 2022   |
| 22.   | Assam            | IIT Guwahati                    | PARAM Kamrupa               | 838 TF          | 2022   |
| 23.   | Himachal Pradesh | IIT Mandi                       | PARAM Himalaya              | 838 TF          | 2022   |
| 24.   | Maharashtra      | C-DAC Pune                      | PARAM Vidya                 | 52.3 TF         | 2022   |
| 25.   | West Bengal      | IIT Kharagpur                   | PARAM Vidya                 | 52.3 TF         | 2022   |
| 26.   | Kerala           | IIT Palakkad                    | PARAM Vidya                 | 52.3 TF         | 2022   |
| 27.   | Tamil Nadu       | IIT Madras                      | PARAM Vidya                 | 52.3 TF         | 2022   |
| 28.   | Goa              | IIT Goa                         | PARAM Vidya                 | 52.3 TF         | 2022   |
| 29.   | Maharashtra      | C-DAC Pune                      | PARAM Rudra Pilot facility  | 1 PF            | 2023   |
| 30.   | Delhi            | IUAC Delhi                      | PARAM Rudra                 | 3 PF            | 2024   |
| 31.   | Delhi            | NIC Delhi                       | PARAM System                | 50 AI PF/1.3 PF | 2024   |
| 32.   | Maharashtra      | GMRT - NCRA Pune                | PARAM Rudra                 | 1 PF            | 2024   |
| 33.   | West Bengal      | S.N. Bose Centre Kolkata        | PARAM Rudra                 | 833 TF          | 2024   |
| 34.   | Delhi            | C-DAC Delhi                     | PARAM Rudra                 | 200 TF          | 2024   |
| 35.   | Maharashtra      | IIT Bombay                      | PARAM Rudra                 | 3 PF            | 2025   |
| 36.   | Tamil Nadu       | IIT Madras                      | PARAM Rudra                 | 3 PF            | 2025   |
| 37.   | Bihar            | IIT Patna                       | PARAM Rudra                 | 833 TF          | 2025   |
| Total | Total            | Total                           | Total                       | 40 PF           |        |

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