NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING MISSSION

Question 1

Why in News?

Answer 1

Recently, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru installed the supercomputer ‘Param Pravega’

Question 2

Supercomputing capacity of PARAM GANGA?

Installed under what mission?

Answer 2

upercomputing capacity of 3.3 petaflops.

installed under the government’s National Supercomputing Mission.

Question 3

What is a Supercomputer?

Answer 3

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

Question 4

What is a PETAFLOP ?

FLOP?

Answer 4

PETAFLOP is a measure of a Supercomputer’s processing speed

FLOPS (floating-point operations per second) are typically used to measure the performance of a computer’s processor.

Question 5

Where are Supercomputers used ?

Answer 5

primarily designed to be used in enterprises and organizations that require massive computing power.

weather forecasting, scientific research,

Question 6

PARAM GANGA has been designed by whom?

Answer 6

It has been designed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC).

along with an indigenous software stack developed by C-DAC, in line with the Make in India initiative.

Question 7

When was National Supercomputing mission inititated?

Aim?

Answer 7

The National Supercomputing Mission was announced in 2015,
aim to connect national academic and
R&D institutions with a grid of more than 70 high-performance computing facilities

Question 8

NSM FIRST SUPERCOMPUTER NAME AND WHERE?

Answer 8

NSM‘s first supercomputer named Param Shivay has been installed in IIT-BHU, Varanasi, in 2019