Concurrent computing Current Affairs, GK & News
India to Build 60 Supercomputers
The Department of Science and Technology has announced the plans to build 60 supercomputers over the next three years. The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) will be responsible for the implementation of the project and six machines are expected to be installed by the end of the year. Supercomputers A supercomputer is one that ..
Topics: Centre for Development of Advanced Computing • Computing • Concurrent computing • Digital technology • FLOPS • Information technology in India • K computer • Parallel computing • PARAM • Supercomputers • Supercomputing • Supercomputing in India
IIT Kharagpur signs pact with C-DAC to build India’s first state-of-the-art 1.3 PetaFlop High-Performance Computing facility
The IIT Kharagpur has signed a MoU with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) to set up India’s first state-of-the-art 1.3 PetaFlop high performance computing facility and data center funded under the National Supercomputing Mission. PetaFlop is the measurement of computing power based on the frequency of mathematical calculations that can be done per ..
Topics: Centre for Development of Advanced Computing • Computer architecture • Computing • Concurrent computing • Digital technology • Distributed computing architecture • Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur • Supercomputer
Blockchain and Distributed Ledger
This technology was first used in bitcoins and other crypto-currencies. It uses single shared ledgers to store information. Advanced cryptography technology is used to make sure that information once entered in to the ledger cannot be altered except if the changes are in compliance with some of the pre-defined parameters. Additionally, this technology uses different nodes instead ..
Topics: Bitcoin • Blockchains • Concurrent computing • cryptocurrencies • Decentralization • Digital currencies • Distributed ledger • Economy • Ledger • Service industries
Current Affairs : India World Business July 27, 2009
July 27, 2009: India’s projected online populationJuly 27, 2009 : Maximum Tourists come from US July 24, 2009: India is number 1 in remittance flow: World BankJuly 24, 2009 : Number of hungry people to swell to record 1 billion : FAOJuly 23, 2009 : India Ranks 5 in Largest Foreign Reserves: July 23, 2009 ..
Month: Current Affairs - July, 2009
Topics: Cluster computing • Computer architecture • Computing • Concurrent computing • Cray • Current Affairs 2009 • Distributed computing architecture • IBM Blue Gene • Parallel computing • Remittance • Roadrunner • Supercomputers • TOP500