♦ Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually inaugurated three Param Rudra supercomputers and High Performance Computing (HPC) systems for weather and climate research on 26 September 2024. The supercomputers, developed indigenously under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) and at a cost of about Rs 130 crore, will be deployed in Pune, Delhi, and Kolkata to support high-performance scientific research and development.

♦ He also inaugurated ‘Arka’ and ‘Arunika’, a High-Performance Computing (HPC) system tailored for weather and climate research, and interacted with scientists and researchers involved in the development of the infrastructure.

♦ The HPC system tailored for weather and climate research, is launched under a total project cost of Rs.850 crore, and is located at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) in Pune and the National Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (NCMRWF) in Noida.