External Users Portal & Resource Desk
Usage Policy for External Users
PARAM Aryabhatta Account Request Form
Process Flow of Account Creation
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.
Key Research Applications
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
Figure 1 - PARAM Rudra Architecture Diagram
Figure 2 - Software Stack (Intel OneAPI, CUDA, SLURM, Ganglia)
Our Team
Prof. Somanath Tripathy
CoordinatorProfessor, Department of CSE
coordinator_asc@iitp.ac.in
Mr. Ajay Kumar
Technical SuperintendentASC 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.
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.
Internal IITP Users
External Users