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• The National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) has deployed PARAM Ganga-a High-Performance Computational (HPC) facility at IIT Roorkee, with a supercomputing capacity of 1.66 Petaflops.
• Earlier, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru installed the supercomputer ‘ParamPravega’.
• It has been established by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) under the approach of NSM.
• The basic idea behind building a Petascale Supercomputer with manufactured in India components is to lead the path towards Aatmanirbhar Bharat and accelerate the problem-solving capacity in multidisciplinary domains simultaneously.
• It will aid researchers to solve complex problems of national importance and global significance.
• It will serve as an essential computer environment for the modern-day research along with their theoretical and experimental work.
• The focus is to provide computational power to the user community of IIT Roorkee and neighbouring academic institutions.

Supercomputer

• A supercomputer is a computer that performs at or near the currently highest operational rate for computers.
• Generally, PETAFLOP is a measure of a Supercomputer’s processing speed and can be expressed as a thousand trillion floating point operations per second.
• FLOPS (floating point operations per second) are typically used to measure the performance of a computer’s processor.
• Using floating-point encoding, extremely long numbers can be handled relatively easily.
• Supercomputers are primarily designed to be used in enterprises and organizations that require massive computing power.
• For example: weather forecasting, scientific research, intelligence gathering and analysis, data mining etc.
• Globally, China has the maximum number of supercomputers and maintains the top position in the world, followed by the US, Japan, France, Germany, Netherlands, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
• India’s first supercomputer was PARAM 8000.
• PARAM Shivay, the first supercomputer assembled indigenously, was installed in IIT (BHU), followed by PARAM Shakti, PARAM Brahma, PARAM Yukti, PARAMSanganak at IIT-Kharagpur, IISER, Pune, JNCASR, Bengaluru and IIT Kanpur respectively.
• In 2020, PARAM Siddhi, the High-Performance Computing-Artificial Intelligence (HPC-AI) supercomputer, achieved global ranking of 62nd in Top 500 most powerful supercomputer systems in the world.

SOURCE: THE HINDU,THE ECONOMIC TIMES,MINT