Context:
9 more supercomputers will be addedin addition with 18 supercomputers being deployed under the National Supercomputing Mission (NCM).
About National Supercomputing Mission:
- Launched in 2015.
- Objectives –
- To provide the country with supercomputing infrastructure
- To meet the increasing computational demands of academia, researchers, MSMEs, and startups.
- To make India a world leader in High-Performance Computing (HPC)
- Steered jointly by –Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY)
- Implemented by –Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.
- Indian Supercomputers –
- 1st Supercomputer – PARAM 8000
- 1stindigenous supercomputer – PARAM Shivay
- Other Supercomputers in India – PARAM Shakti, PARAM Brahma, PARAM Yukti, PARAM Sanganak.
- Networking of supercomputers on the National Supercomputing grid over the National Knowledge Network (NKN).
A supercomputer is a computer that operates at or near the highest computational capacity, with PETAFLOP being a measure of its processing speed, denoting a thousand trillion floating point operations per second.
Indian supercomputers in the Top 500 Global Supercomputing List:
- AI Supercomputer ‘AIRAWAT’
- PARAM Siddhi-AI (High-Performance Computing-Artificial Intelligence supercomputer)
- Pratyush supercomputer
- Mihir supercomputer
Click here to read about Digital India Program
Source: Times of India
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
