Airawat PARAM is a series of Indian supercomputers designed and assembled by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in Pune.

[1][2] PARAM means "supreme" in the Sanskrit language, whilst also creating an acronym for "PARAllel Machine".

[1] C-DAC was created in November 1987, originally as the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing Technology (C-DACT).

[7] The PARAM 8000 was noted to be 28 times more powerful than the Cray X-MP that the government originally requested, for the same $10 million cost quoted for it.

In 1992 C-DAC realised its machines were underpowered and wished to integrate the newly released Intel i860 processor.

[19] A typical system would contain 160 CPUs and be capable of 100 GFLOPS[20] But, it was easily scalable to the TFLOP range.

[21] Further computers were made in the PARAM series as one-off supercomputers, rather than serial production machines.

The hardware components consist of Network Interface Cards (NIC) based on CDAC's fourth generation communication co-processor "GEMINI", and modular 48-port Packet Routing Switch "ANVAY".

The software component "KSHIPRA" is a lightweight protocol stack designed to exploit capabilities of hardware and to provide industry standard interfaces to the applications.

PARAMs have also been sold to Tanzania, Armenia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Ghana, Myanmar, Nepal, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.