Message from the Head of the Centre and Associate Head of the Centre
The Centre for Computational and Data Sciences at IIT Kharagpur is the primary facility provider for high performance computing (HPC) in Eastern India. The centre houses a 1.3 PetaFlop supercomputer ParamShakti and other high-end CPU-GPU systems for executing massively parallel, resource and time intensive computing jobs. The facility is maximally utilized by 1000+ researchers from IIT Kharagpur and various other institutes. The facility is regularly used for various high valued projects of national importance. The centre also runs a very active research program that focuses on HPC aspects in various scientific computing and engineering domains including but not limited to Computational Biology, Fluid dynamics, Quantum computing, Molecular dynamics, AI/ML, Cyber Security and runtime system design. At present the centre has 32 research scholars and 6 MS (by research) students supported through MHRD, other govt, academic and industrial sponsors. The department always encourages bright, young minds as well as experienced researchers to join its well acclaimed interdisciplinary research program in the HPC domain.
