IIT Patna Main Building
IIT Patna Campus view
MOU Signing Ceremony
Team with MOU
838 TeraFLOPS Peak
180 Compute Nodes
1 PB HP Storage
A100 Nvidia GPU

About ASC

Aryabhatta Supercomputing Centre (ASC) is the computational heart of the institute, established under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) to foster high-performance computing (HPC) excellence. At its core lies PARAM Rudra, a supercomputing system indigenously designed by C-DAC and manufactured in India.

PARAM Rudra comprises 180 compute nodes built on RUDRA servers, powered by Intel Xeon processors and integrated with a robust open-source software stack. It empowers researchers across 10 academic departments.

Mission: To enable cutting-edge exploration and innovation in computational sciences.

Key Research Applications

Climate Modelling
Drug Discovery
Computational Biology
Artificial Intelligence
Nanotechnology
Materials Science
Cryptography
Quantum Computing

Virtual Tour

Inside the PARAM Rudra Supercomputing Facility at IIT Patna

System Specifications

Compute Nodes (CPU)

  • 122 Nodes
  • 2x Intel Xeon G-6240R (48 Cores)
  • 192 GB DDR4 Memory
  • 800 GB Local SSD
  • Total Cores: 5,856

GPU Nodes

  • 08 Nodes
  • 2x Nvidia A100 per node
  • 80 GB HBM2e per GPU
  • 2x Intel Xeon G-6240R
  • 13,824 GPU Cores

High Memory Nodes

  • 32 Nodes
  • 768 GB DDR5 Memory
  • 2x Intel Xeon G-6240R
  • 24,576 GB Total Memory

Login & Mgmt

  • 4 Login Nodes (192GB Mem)
  • 6 Management Nodes
  • Lustre Parallel File System
  • InfiniBand HDR Interconnect

Architecture & Software Stack

PARAM Rudra Architecture Diagram

Figure 1 - PARAM Rudra Architecture Diagram

PARAM Rudra Software Stack

Figure 2 - Software Stack (Intel OneAPI, CUDA, SLURM, Ganglia)

Our Team

Prof. Somanath Tripathy

Prof. Somanath Tripathy

Coordinator

Professor, Department of CSE

coordinator_asc@iitp.ac.in

Mr. Ajay Kumar

Mr. Ajay Kumar

Technical Superintendent

ASC Technical Team

asc_support@iitp.ac.in

Access & Support

How to get an Account

  • Visit the User Creation Portal:
    nsmindia.in/userportal
  • Fill in the registration form and select Indian Institute of Technology Patna.
  • Upload necessary documents and submit.
  • Wait for NSM committee review and email confirmation.
Once approved, you will receive an email with your User Credentials and cluster allocation.

Support

Generate a ticket at paramrudra.iitp.ac.in/support
or email rudrasupport@iitp.ac.in.

SSH Access

Use PuTTY or MobaXterm to connect securely.

Hostname
paramrudra.iitp.ac.in

Internal IITP Users
Port 22

External Users
Port 4422
Note: Enter Captcha when prompted, then input your password.