HPCE Guidelines

HPCE Framework

To address the growing demand for supercomputing facilities, IIT Madras’s High Performance Computing Environment (HPCE) journey began with the IBM System 370 in the 1970s, followed by Siemens systems in the 1980s, and SGI and Sun systems in the early 2000s. Starting in 2007, the Institute began building progressively more powerful computing clusters: the Leo Cluster (2007–2010), a CPU-only system; the Vega Cluster (2008–2012), which achieved 13.96 TFLOPS; the Libra Cluster (2012–2017), introducing GPU computing with 6 TFLOPS; the Virgo Cluster (2012–2020), a CPU-based system delivering 91 TFLOPS; the GNR Cluster (2013–2020), focused on CPU configurations; and the Aqua Cluster (2020–present), a major leap with 295 nodes, delivering 734 TFLOPS using a hybrid CPU/GPU architecture.

In 2020, under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), IIT Madras was selected for the installation of a 3 Petaflop supercomputing facility. With support from C-DAC Pune, the installation will be completed during 2024–2025.

For more information about the policies, how to obtain an account, and how to access the Cluster, please refer to the links below:

Please click the links to learn more about each topic.

Topic/Link
HPCE Policies
Accessing HPCE Account
New HPC User Info
Research and Publication

Acknowledging HPCE

We encourage you to mention about the computational facility in your books, presentations, and camera-ready paper versions. Do let us know via this form, and we will include the papers in publications.

We acknowledge the use of the computing resources at HPCE, IIT Madras. ~