PARAM Sheersh, a supercomputing facility for bio-informatics and computational biology was formally inaugurated at the North Eastern Hill University in Shillong on 5 January, 2009.
Prof MGK Menon, who inaugurated the facility in the absence of former President APJ Abdul Kalam, said the new technology was specifically developed for the North Eastern Region to usher in new benefits for the local population.
Developed by Pune-based Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), the facility will take up in conducting research in strategic areas of Weather, Seismic, Bio-informatics, Physics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Material Sciences and Life Sciences.
PARAM Sheersh facility consists of 4 TF peak supercomputing power along with 10 TB High Performance storage scratch space and 24 TB on-line storage.
Source: UNI
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