Question
What is the name of the supercomputer that is touted to
be one of the most powerful in India and has been installed at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM)?Solution
Param Pravega, a supercomputer that is touted to be one of the most powerful in the country, has been installed at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM). Param Pravega has a total supercomputing capacity of 3.3 petaflops (1 petaflop equals a quadrillion or 1,015 operations per second). It has been designed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). NSM is steered jointly by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), and implemented by C-DAC and IISc.
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