The broad objectives of NPSF are as follows:

• To explore new industrial applications which demand supercomputing solutions in order to have international competitiveness of the final designed products.
  
  
• To provide facilities to institutions/organizations primarily within India for fulfilling their computational needs.
  
  
• To establish the capabilities in high-technology areas, which are hitherto been confined to only developed countries.
  
  
• To solve some of the demanding problems, which could benefit the society in general to uplift the standard of living.