PARAM Rudra Supercomputers

PARAM Rudra Supercomputers

PM Narendra Modi inaugurated three PARAM Rudra Supercomputers worth ₹130 crore.

  • Deployment: Installed in Pune, Delhi, and Kolkata under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).
  • Research Areas: These supercomputers will aid research in physics, cosmology, and earth sciences.
  • PARAM Series: Several supercomputers like PARAM developed under NSM, deployed in research institutions.
  •  National Supercomputing Mission (NSM)
    • Launch: Government initiative to enhance supercomputing capability for socio-economic growth.
    • Objective: To promote indigenous hardware and software for supercomputers.
    • Collaboration: Led by MeitY and DST, implemented by C-DAC and IISc.
    • Impact: Supports the vision of Digital India and Make in India, and boosts emerging technologies like AI and quantum computing.
  • Supercomputers perform at the highest operational rates, measured in FLOPS.
  • FLOPS: Performance measured in teraflops (trillions of operations per second) or petaflops (quadrillions of operations per second).
  • Applications of Supercomputers
    • Weather Forecasting and monitoring climate change.
    • Space Exploration: Simulations for space missions and orbital mechanics.
    • Healthcare & Genomics: Critical in drug discovery, genome sequencing, and biomedical simulations.
  • India’s Supercomputers
    • PARAM Rudra: Installed in Pune, Delhi, and Kolkata under NSM.
    • Pratyush & Mihir: Used for weather forecasting, located at IITM (Pune) and NCMRWF (Noida).
    • PARAM Yuva-II: Developed by C-DAC, previously one of the fastest supercomputers in India.
  • Top Supercomputers in the World
    • Frontier (USA): Fastest supercomputer in 2023, exceeding 1 exaFLOP.
    • Fugaku (Japan): Previously the fastest, used in drug discovery and climate modeling.

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Previous Year Question

What is “Virtual Private Network”?

[UPSC Civil Services Exam – 2011 Prelims]

(a) It is a private computer network of an organization where the remote users can transmit encrypted information through the server of the organization
(b)It is a computer network across a public internet that provides users access to their organization’s network while maintaining the security of the information transmitted
(c) It is a computer network in which users can access a shared pool of computing resources through a service provider
(d) None of the statements (a), (b) and (c) given above is a correct description of Virtual Private Network

Answer: (b)


Practice Question

Consider the following statements regarding National Supercomputing Mission (NSM):

  1. It is jointly steered by the Ministry of Electronics and IT and the Department of Science & Technology.
  2. The mission primarily focuses on developing supercomputing systems using imported hardware and software.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

 
 
 
 

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