Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Gandhinagar

Computing facilities for research and teaching

The department draws on institute-scale high-performance computing infrastructure for research, and maintains dedicated computing labs for hands-on instruction and course delivery.

Research facilities

High-performance computing through ISTF

IIT Gandhinagar's supercomputing ecosystem includes PARAM Ananta, the IITGN HPC cluster, the CSE Singularity cluster, and department GPU-server resources such as Turing and Hamilton, supporting high-performance CPU, GPU, memory, and storage needs across institute and department research workloads.

National Supercomputing Mission supercomputer

PARAM Ananta

Commissioned at IIT Gandhinagar in May 2022 under the National Supercomputing Mission, PARAM Ananta supports CPU- and GPU-intensive research across computational science, engineering, AI/ML/DL, climate and environment sciences, materials, biology, astronomy, and related domains.

  • 838 TFLOPS peak performance
  • 7,408 CPU cores and 20 NVIDIA V100 GPU cards
  • 52 TiB RAM and 1 PiB usable PFS-based storage
  • 156 compute nodes with 100 Gbps EDR InfiniBand
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In-house high-performance computing cluster

IITGN HPC Cluster

The institute HPC cluster, developed through successive upgrades since the supercomputing facility began in 2010, complements PARAM Ananta with additional CPU, GPU, memory, storage, and InfiniBand-connected capacity for research workloads.

  • 132 TFLOPS peak performance
  • About 1,250 CPU cores and 6 GPU cards
  • About 7 TiB RAM and 100 TB usable PFS storage
  • 34 compute nodes with Mellanox EDR InfiniBand
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CSE high-performance computing cluster

Singularity Cluster

Commissioned in April 2025, the CSE Singularity HPC Cluster provides GPU-accelerated computing capacity for departmental research workloads, with SLURM-based scheduling and shared storage for users.

  • 128 CPU cores
  • 8 NVIDIA L40S GPU cards
  • 172 TB usable PFS storage
  • 100 Gbps EDR InfiniBand
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Department-maintained GPU servers

Turing and Hamilton

Turing and Hamilton are department-maintained GPU-based server resources that support CSE research computing needs alongside the institute and CSE HPC clusters.

  • GPU-based departmental computing resources
  • Maintained by the Department of Computer Science & Engineering
  • In active use for running various department-level utilities

More HPC information

Supercomputing facility overview Available software domains Usage and access FAQs CSE Singularity cluster

Teaching facilities

Dedicated computing labs for coursework

The department has four computing labs for teaching and practical sessions. Each lab is equipped with 70 machines, giving students access to 280 teaching-lab systems across the department.