NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING MISSION Flashcards
____ is a computer that performs at or near the currently highest operational rate for computers.
Supercomputer
(?) is a measure of a Supercomputer’s processing speed and can be expressed as a thousand trillion floating point operations per second.
PETAFLOP
(?) are typically used to measure the performance of a computer’s processor.
FLOPS (floating point operations per second)
(?) has the maximum number of supercomputers
China
___ 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.
NSM
is jointly steered by Ministry of Electronics and IT and MoS&T
India’s first supercomputer was
PARAM 8000
the first supercomputer assembled indigenously
PARAM Shivay
Some supercomputers in India:
- 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
Who achieved global ranking of (?) in Top 500 most powerful supercomputer systems in the world?
PARAM Siddhi — the High-Performance Computing-Artificial Intelligence (HPC-AI) , 62nd Position
in 2015
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.
National Knowledge Network (NKN)
National Supercomputing Mission is implemented by the
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)-Pune, and the IISc-Bengaluru
The mission was planned in (?) phases
three
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
‘Rudra’ , Trinetra
The National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) has deployed ____ facility at IIT Roorkee
PARAM Ganga-a High-Performance Computational (HPC)
with a supercomputing capacity of 1.66 Petaflops
PARAM Ganga-a High-Performance Computational (HPC) facility at IIT Roorkee has been established by the
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
PARAM PRAVEGA is installed at
IISC Bangalore
has a supercomputing capacity of 3.3 petaflops
The (?) are a measure of a system’s floating point computing power.
LINPACK Benchmarks
In high-performance computing, ____ and ____ are scores used to rank supercomputers based on their performance using the LINPACK Benchmark.
Rmax , Rpeak
The supercomputer has Rpeak of (?) Petaflops and ___ Petaflops Rmax
5.267 , 4.6
____ is the world’s fastest supercomputer.
USA’s Frontier
pehle Japan’s Fugaku tha
____ and (?) are the Fastest Supercomputers in India.
Pratyush , Mihir
Pratyush is established in
Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune
Mihir is established in the
National Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (NCMWF), Noida
A state-of the art Supercomputer at IIT Gandhinagar dedicated to the nation under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM). Name it
PARAM ANANTA
is based on Direct Contact Liquid Cooling technology
