NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING MISSION

Question 1

____ is a computer that performs at or near the currently highest operational rate for computers.

Answer 1

Supercomputer

Question 2

(?) is a measure of a Supercomputer’s processing speed and can be expressed as a thousand trillion floating point operations per second.

Answer 2

PETAFLOP

Question 3

(?) are typically used to measure the performance of a computer’s processor.

Answer 3

FLOPS (floating point operations per second)

Question 4

(?) has the maximum number of supercomputers

Answer 4

China

Question 5

___ is an important initiative by Government of India to boost indigenous efforts to be in the forefront of supercomputing capability for socio-economic development of the nation.

Answer 5

NSM

is jointly steered by Ministry of Electronics and IT and MoS&T

Question 6

India’s first supercomputer was

Answer 6

PARAM 8000

Question 7

the first supercomputer assembled indigenously

Answer 7

PARAM Shivay

Question 8

Some supercomputers in India:

Answer 8

• PARAM Shivay in IIT (BHU)
• PARAM Shakti in IIT-Kharagpur,
• PARAM Brahma in IISER
• PARAM Yukti in Pune
• PARAM Sanganak in JNCASR, Bengaluru and IIT Kanpur

Question 9

Who achieved global ranking of (?) in Top 500 most powerful supercomputer systems in the world?

Answer 9

PARAM Siddhi — the High-Performance Computing-Artificial Intelligence (HPC-AI) , 62nd Position

in 2015

Question 10

In 2015, the National Supercomputing Mission was launched to enhance the research capacities and capabilities in the country by connecting them to form a Supercomputing grid, with (?) as the backbone.

Answer 10

National Knowledge Network (NKN)

Question 11

National Supercomputing Mission is implemented by the

Answer 11

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)-Pune, and the IISc-Bengaluru

Question 12

The mission was planned in (?) phases

Answer 12

three

Question 13

An indigenously developed server platform called (?) is being tried out in a pilot system, with an interconnect for inter node communication called ____ also having been developed

Answer 13

‘Rudra’ , Trinetra

Question 14

The National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) has deployed ____ facility at IIT Roorkee

Answer 14

PARAM Ganga-a High-Performance Computational (HPC)

with a supercomputing capacity of 1.66 Petaflops

Question 15

PARAM Ganga-a High-Performance Computational (HPC) facility at IIT Roorkee has been established by the

Answer 15

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)

Question 16

PARAM PRAVEGA is installed at

Answer 16

IISC Bangalore

has a supercomputing capacity of 3.3 petaflops

Question 17

The (?) are a measure of a system’s floating point computing power.

Answer 17

LINPACK Benchmarks

Question 18

In high-performance computing, ____ and ____ are scores used to rank supercomputers based on their performance using the LINPACK Benchmark.

Answer 18

Rmax , Rpeak

Question 19

The supercomputer has Rpeak of (?) Petaflops and ___ Petaflops Rmax

Answer 19

5.267 , 4.6

Question 20

____ is the world’s fastest supercomputer.

Answer 20

USA’s Frontier

pehle Japan’s Fugaku tha

Question 21

____ and (?) are the Fastest Supercomputers in India.

Answer 21

Pratyush , Mihir

Question 22

Pratyush is established in

Answer 22

Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune

Question 23

Mihir is established in the

Answer 23

National Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (NCMWF), Noida

Question 24

A state-of the art Supercomputer at IIT Gandhinagar dedicated to the nation under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM). Name it

Answer 24

PARAM ANANTA

is based on Direct Contact Liquid Cooling technology

Question 25

He is known as the man behind India’s first supercomputer.

Answer 25

Vijay P. Bhatkar

Question 26

World’s First SuperComputing

Answer 26

CDC 6600

Seymour Cray and James E. Thornton in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.

Question 27

Supercomputer pioneer ____ experimented with the “Little Character,” a 6-bit prototype for the modular packaging and logic approach he envisioned for CDC’s first computers.

Answer 27

Seymour Cray