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Supercomputer Param Pravega
Indian Institute of Science (IISC), Bengaluru has commissioned one of the most powerful supercomputers, called “Param Pravega” in India. About Supercomputer Param Pravega Param Pravega supercomputer has a supercomputing capacity of 3.3 petaflops. It is the largest supercomputer in an Indian academic institution. Who has designed Param Pravega? The supercomputer has been designed and developed ..
Month: Current Affairs - February, 2022
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Indian Institute of Science (IISc) • Supercomputer
Simorgh Supercomputer
Iran recently launched its supercomputer called Simorgh. This supercomputer is hundred times more powerful than the previous Iranian supercomputers. About the Simorgh Supercomputer The Supercomputer has been named after the phoenix like bird called the Simurgh. The Simorgh Supercomputer was developed by the Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran, the capital of Iran. It is ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2021
Category: International / World Current Affairs
Topics: Iran • Simorgh Supercomputer • Supercomputer • Tehran • US sanctions
UK to build World’s most powerful climate-change forecasting supercomputer
Met Office and Microsoft are to build a weather forecasting supercomputer in the UK. The UK Government is to invest 1.2 billion Pound Sterling in the project. About the Supercomputer The supercomputer is expected to be one of the top twenty-five supercomputers in the world. It will help in better understanding of Climate Change. The ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2021
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Carbon dioxide • Climate change • Green House Gas Emissions • Renewable energy • Supercomputer • weather forecast
Param Siddhi: India’s AI supercomputer among world top 500 most power non-distributed computers
Param Siddhi is a high-performance computing-artificial intelligence (HPC-AI) supercomputer that was established at C-DAC under the National Supercomputing Mission. It has secured rank 63 in TOP 500 most powerful non-distributed computer system list in the world. What are the features of Param Siddhi? Param Siddhi was jointly developed by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2020
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: C-DAC • Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) • Digital India • FLOPS • Make in India • Ministry of Power • national supercomputing mission • Param shivay • Param Siddhi • PetaFlop • Supercomputer
IIT Delhi has offered the use of the PADUM supercomputer
IIT Delhi has offered the use of its high performance computational resources (supercomputer) for research work regarding COVID-19 for the next 6 months. About the Initiative IIT Delhi has offered computational time worth about 1 crore INR for free for conducting research regarding COVID-19. This can be used by private firms, academic institutions as well ..
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: COVID-19 • IIT Delhi • PADUM • Supercomputer
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