Facilities such as NPSF have to run with highest uptime and adequate technical support to provide a quality service to its users. This requires appropriate power back-up with UPS and DG sets, and spares for technical resources all the time. Also, system administration and technical consultancy support are integral part of running such a facility. Further, due to the fast obsolescence, the constant upgradation in the technical (both hardware and software) resources is needed to stay current. In order to accomplish these, heavy resources are deployed by the host institution, C-DAC in this case of NPSF, to offer a quality facility on a 24-hours uninterrupted basis. These have, therefore, to be at least partly recovered through its usage to sustain the operation. Keeping in view the practice followed worldwide, a scheme, called the Technical Affiliation Scheme, is introduced with an express objective of encouraging the potential users of high performance computing resources in a cost-effective way, and also provide a state-of-the-art technically congenial environment to the researchers in the NPSF.

This scheme is introduced to provide supercomputing facility to various industries as well as academic and R & D Institutions to process their diverse applications which require supercomputing power. For a long time it has not been economically viable for the industry and academic/R&D institutions to use High Performance Supercomputers. This scheme is a step in the direction to address this problem by providing state-of-the-art "PARAM 10000" parallel machine to external users. For this, any interested user has to get enrolled as a Technical Affiliate of NPSF in order to use the computing resources of this facility. They can then use NPSF resources on certain terms and conditions, details of which can be obtained on request.