Param Ambar The Latest And most advanced Supercomputer Inaugurated
There was a time when United States of America had refused to sell a super computer to India for weather forecasting because the Administration thought that India will be using it for testing its nuclear weapons.
One India friendly Senator had then rebuked the State Department by staying that there is no point denying this computer technology to those who had once given the concept of ZERO to the world, in time they will develop their own.
Within no time India established the Centre for Advance Comupting developed its own super computer PARAM and that too quite easily with existing hardware.
Now in 2020 PARAM Ambar one of most powerful Supercomputers to strengthen India’s climate research, real-time weather monitoring.
PARAM Ambar (Advanced Machine for Basic Atmospheric Research) offers high throughput storage of 2 Petabytes and archival capacity of 1 Petabytes has come into existance.
Inaugurated by ISRO chairman K Sivan recently, PARAM Ambar is one of the space agency’s largest operational computational facilities. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) recently strengthened its supercomputing capacity after adding a 1.65-Petaflops PARAM Ambar to its network.
PARAM Ambar (Advanced Machine for Basic Atmospheric Research) offers high throughput storage of 2 Petabytes and archival capacity of 1 Petabytes. Inaugurated by ISRO chairman K Sivan recently, PARAM Ambar is one of the space agency’s largest operational computational facilities.
Developed by Pune-headquartered Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), the supercomputer will serve disaster management agencies in a big way. It will also be used for climate modelling, carrying out research related to atmospheric and oceanic processes, and for real-time weather forecasting.
Alongside climate research, Ambar will also be used for ISRO’s monitoring networks dedicated for prediction of heavy rainfall evidences, air quality, prediction of genesis, occurrence and intensification of deep convections or cloud bursts, assimilation of satellite radiances in atmospheric and oceanic models, and centennial scale climate modelling, among other functions.
