PARAM PRAGYA: AI-POWERED SUPERCOMPUTING FACILITY AT IIT DELHI
18 August 2026
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Mehnat Aapki, Guidance Humari
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PARAM PRAGYA: AI-POWERED SUPERCOMPUTING FACILITY AT IIT DELHI
Context: Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated PARAM Pragya on 8 August 2026 during IIT Delhi’s 57th Convocation. The AI-powered high-performance computing facility has been established at IIT Delhi’s Sonipat Campus and is intended to strengthen research in artificial intelligence, data science, advanced computing and interdisciplinary science.
Background: India has steadily built indigenous supercomputing capability since PARAM 8000 in 1991. This effort later expanded through the National Supercomputing Mission, which seeks to provide advanced computing infrastructure to research and academic institutions. PARAM Pragya represents the growing shift from conventional high-performance computing towards AI-intensive computing infrastructure.
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PARAM Pragya, an AI-powered supercomputing facility at IIT Delhi's Sonipat campus, features 400 NVIDIA A100 GPUs and 250 AI petaflops for advanced research.
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PARAM Pragyasupercomputing facilityIIT DelhiNVIDIA A100 GPUsAI petaflopsNational Supercomputing Missionhigh-performance computingartificial intelligence infrastructure