NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING MISSION Flashcards
____ is a computer that performs at or near the currently highest operational rate for computers.
Supercomputer
(?) is a measure of a Supercomputer’s processing speed and can be expressed as a thousand trillion floating point operations per second.
PETAFLOP
(?) are typically used to measure the performance of a computer’s processor.
FLOPS (floating point operations per second)
(?) has the maximum number of supercomputers
China
___ is an important initiative by Government of India to boost indigenous efforts to be in the forefront of supercomputing capability for socio-economic development of the nation.
NSM
is jointly steered by Ministry of Electronics and IT and MoS&T
India’s first supercomputer was
PARAM 8000
the first supercomputer assembled indigenously
PARAM Shivay
Some supercomputers in India:
- PARAM Shivay in IIT (BHU)
- PARAM Shakti in IIT-Kharagpur,
- PARAM Brahma in IISER
- PARAM Yukti in Pune
- PARAM Sanganak in JNCASR, Bengaluru and IIT Kanpur
Who achieved global ranking of (?) in Top 500 most powerful supercomputer systems in the world?
PARAM Siddhi — the High-Performance Computing-Artificial Intelligence (HPC-AI) , 62nd Position
in 2015
In 2015, the National Supercomputing Mission was launched to enhance the research capacities and capabilities in the country by connecting them to form a Supercomputing grid, with (?) as the backbone.
National Knowledge Network (NKN)
National Supercomputing Mission is implemented by the
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)-Pune, and the IISc-Bengaluru
The mission was planned in (?) phases
three
An indigenously developed server platform called (?) is being tried out in a pilot system, with an interconnect for inter node communication called ____ also having been developed
‘Rudra’ , Trinetra
The National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) has deployed ____ facility at IIT Roorkee
PARAM Ganga-a High-Performance Computational (HPC)
with a supercomputing capacity of 1.66 Petaflops
PARAM Ganga-a High-Performance Computational (HPC) facility at IIT Roorkee has been established by the
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
PARAM PRAVEGA is installed at
IISC Bangalore
has a supercomputing capacity of 3.3 petaflops
The (?) are a measure of a system’s floating point computing power.
LINPACK Benchmarks
In high-performance computing, ____ and ____ are scores used to rank supercomputers based on their performance using the LINPACK Benchmark.
Rmax , Rpeak
The supercomputer has Rpeak of (?) Petaflops and ___ Petaflops Rmax
5.267 , 4.6
____ is the world’s fastest supercomputer.
USA’s Frontier
pehle Japan’s Fugaku tha
____ and (?) are the Fastest Supercomputers in India.
Pratyush , Mihir
Pratyush is established in
Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune
Mihir is established in the
National Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (NCMWF), Noida
A state-of the art Supercomputer at IIT Gandhinagar dedicated to the nation under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM). Name it
PARAM ANANTA
is based on Direct Contact Liquid Cooling technology
He is known as the man behind India’s first supercomputer.
Vijay P. Bhatkar
World’s First SuperComputing
CDC 6600
Seymour Cray and James E. Thornton in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.
Supercomputer pioneer ____ experimented with the “Little Character,” a 6-bit prototype for the modular packaging and logic approach he envisioned for CDC’s first computers.
Seymour Cray
