PARAM

PARAM is a series of supercomputers designed and assembled at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in Pune, India. The latest machine in the series is the PARAM Yuva, which reached no. 109 on the TOP500 in June 2009. Others include PARAM 10000 and PARAM 9000/SS and the PARAM Padma. The PARAM Padma was India's first Teraflop supercomputer. Currently, C-DAC is developing a Petaflop Supercomputer which is expected to be in operation by 2012. The biggest challenge in designing the $125 million supercomputer is handling the power consumption of the unit which is expected to be around 20MW up from the current 1MW consumption of the PARAM Yuva cluster. However, the new machine will also be able to perform up to 100 times more computations per second than the current PARAM Yuva cluster.