Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur |

Academics Units

Dr B C Roy Multi Speciality Medical Research Centre

Vinod Gupta School of Management

About The Department

The Centre for Computational and Data Sciences (CCDS) at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur) was established in March, 2017 with a mandate to promote next generation interdisciplinary research and teaching activities that involve state-of-the-art high performance computing (HPC) platforms. The centre hosts a 1.3 PetaFlop computing facility "ParamShakti" which was set up under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), Govt. of India. This facility is actively used by 1500+ users who regularly run HPC workloads pertaining to various computational domains. The users are research scholars and faculty members from IIT Kharagpur as well as other universities of India.The research activities undertaken by CCDS comprise hardware and software optimizations for HPC systems, Data Management, Analytics, Visualizations, etc, along with promoting cutting-edge research in different HPC application domains. These domains include but are not limited to Foundational AI models, Computational Biology, Drug Design, Atmospheric Modeling, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Geo-Scientific Computations, Modeling and Mining of Heterogeneous Information Network, Multi-scale Modeling of Novel Materials, Computational Chemistry, Computational Physics, Numerical Mathematics, Computational Mechanics, Non-equilibrium Molecular Dynamics, etc. CCDS has a nodal centre sposored by National Supercomputing Mission which regularly conducts workshops in various locations of eastern India thus speading knowledge on HPC. The centre also hosts 1) a high performance AI cluster comprising 40 number of H100 GPUs, as part of 5 DGX compute nodes connecedd by an Infiniband high speed switching network with a 2 petabyte file system for big data modeling and storage; 2) an HPC system for disaster management related computation. The centre has recently expanded its data centre for hosting more advanced HPC systems catering to the ewquirements of IIT Kharagpur and partner universities. Academic programs: 1) Microspecialization in HPC, 2) MS/PhD in Computational and Data Sciences. For more details visit the website: https://ccds.iitkgp.ac.inWebsite of HPC at IIT Kharagpur: http://www.hpc.iitkgp.ac.in/ Read less

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Message from the Head

Prof. Soumyajit Dey

soumya@cse.iitkgp.ac.in

+91-3222-283344 | +91-3222-255303

Solutions of many scientific and engineering problems require state-of-the-art massively parallel computing infrastructure. Faculty members and their research groups from several departments/centers of IIT Kharagpur are either engaged in or are keen to take part in solving many such challenging problems. The goal behind the establishment of CCDS is to promote cutting-edge interdisciplinary research in science and engineering and provide state-of-the-art large computational support (both hardware and software) to the users. Other than research, the Centre will also focus on education and capacity building. Read less

High-Performance Computation based R&D in India is going to witness a new phase with the setting up of India’s first state-of-the-art 1.3 PetaFlop High-Performance Computing facility and datacenter ecosystem at IIT Kharagpur under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).