NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING MISSION Flashcards

1
Q

____ is a computer that performs at or near the currently highest operational rate for computers.

A

Supercomputer

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2
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(?) is a measure of a Supercomputer’s processing speed and can be expressed as a thousand trillion floating point operations per second.

A

PETAFLOP

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3
Q

(?) are typically used to measure the performance of a computer’s processor.

A

FLOPS (floating point operations per second)

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4
Q

(?) has the maximum number of supercomputers

A

China

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5
Q

___ 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.

A

NSM

is jointly steered by Ministry of Electronics and IT and MoS&T

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6
Q

India’s first supercomputer was

A

PARAM 8000

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7
Q

the first supercomputer assembled indigenously

A

PARAM Shivay

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8
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Some supercomputers in India:

A
  • 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
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9
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Who achieved global ranking of (?) in Top 500 most powerful supercomputer systems in the world?

A

PARAM Siddhi — the High-Performance Computing-Artificial Intelligence (HPC-AI) , 62nd Position

in 2015

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10
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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.

A

National Knowledge Network (NKN)

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11
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National Supercomputing Mission is implemented by the

A

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)-Pune, and the IISc-Bengaluru

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12
Q

The mission was planned in (?) phases

A

three

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13
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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

A

‘Rudra’ , Trinetra

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14
Q

The National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) has deployed ____ facility at IIT Roorkee

A

PARAM Ganga-a High-Performance Computational (HPC)

with a supercomputing capacity of 1.66 Petaflops

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15
Q

PARAM Ganga-a High-Performance Computational (HPC) facility at IIT Roorkee has been established by the

A

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)

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16
Q

PARAM PRAVEGA is installed at

A

IISC Bangalore

has a supercomputing capacity of 3.3 petaflops

17
Q

The (?) are a measure of a system’s floating point computing power.

A

LINPACK Benchmarks

18
Q

In high-performance computing, ____ and ____ are scores used to rank supercomputers based on their performance using the LINPACK Benchmark.

A

Rmax , Rpeak

19
Q

The supercomputer has Rpeak of (?) Petaflops and ___ Petaflops Rmax

A

5.267 , 4.6

20
Q

____ is the world’s fastest supercomputer.

A

USA’s Frontier

pehle Japan’s Fugaku tha

21
Q

____ and (?) are the Fastest Supercomputers in India.

A

Pratyush , Mihir

22
Q

Pratyush is established in

A

Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune

23
Q

Mihir is established in the

A

National Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (NCMWF), Noida

24
Q

A state-of the art Supercomputer at IIT Gandhinagar dedicated to the nation under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM). Name it

A

PARAM ANANTA

is based on Direct Contact Liquid Cooling technology

25
Q

He is known as the man behind India’s first supercomputer.

A

Vijay P. Bhatkar

26
Q

World’s First SuperComputing

A

CDC 6600

Seymour Cray and James E. Thornton in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.

27
Q

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.

A

Seymour Cray