C-DAC's HPCC software on PARAM Padma effectively addresses the performance and usability challenges of clusters through a high performance flexible software environment. It provides low overhead communication, optimized MPI and a parallel file system with MPI-IO interface to enable applications to scale on large clusters.

C-PFS, a client-server and user-level parallel file system, addresses the high I/O throughput requirements of scientific and engineering applications. Exporting MPI-IO interface for parallel programming and UNIX interface for system management, the C-PFS fully exploits the concurrent data paths between the compute nodes and the terabytes of storage in PARAM Padma.

The Fortran programming environment includes a Fortran 90 compiler, a parallelizing compiler for Fortran 77/90 for SMP, an integrated development environment and Fortran 77 to Fortran 90 converter.

The DIViA debugging environment comprises of a coherent set of tools that help programmers in both correctness and performance debugging of C or Fortran language parallel programs for MPI environment. PARMON, the system management tool, enables the administrator to monitor activities and resource utilization of various cluster components. The RMS resource management tool enables users to optimally schedule jobs across the cluster nodes.