National Supercomputing Mission(NSM)

Question 1

___________a state-of-the art Supercomputer at NIT Tiruchirappalli under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) was inaugurated.

Answer 1

PARAM PORUL

Question 2

This system is based on __________ to obtain a high-power usage effectiveness and thereby reducing the operational cost

Answer 2

Direct Contact Liquid Cooling technology

Question 3

When was NSM launched

Answer 3

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 National Knowledge Network (NKN) as the backbone
Launched in 2015, this seven-year mission was allocated Rs 4,500-crore.

Question 4

The Mission plans to build and deploy ________ facilities with cumulative compute power of more than 64 Petaflops

Answer 4

24

Question 5

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

Answer 5

PETAFLOP

Question 6

Department involved in NSM MISSION

Answer 6

Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).

Question 7

Who is implementing NSM

Answer 7

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

Question 8

The mission was planned in _____ phases

Answer 8

three phases

Question 9

NSM deployed “_________” at IIT Roorkee in March 2022 with a supercomputing capacity of 1.66 Petaflops as a part of phase 2.

Answer 9

PARAM Ganga

Question 10

_________ is the fastest supercomputer in India built under NSM with a capacity of 5.26 PF.

Answer 10

PARAM Siddhi-AI
-ranked63rdamong top 500most powerfulnon-distributed computer systemsin the world.

Question 11

________ is the world’s fastest supercomputer.

Answer 11

Frontier
Oak ridge national laboratoty(ORNL) USA

Question 12

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

Answer 12

LINPACK Benchmark
The LINPACK Benchmarks are a measure of a system’s floating point computing power.

Question 13

India’s first supercomputer was

Answer 13

PARAM 8000.

Question 14

_________, the first supercomputer assembled indigenously, was installed in IIT (BHU)

Answer 14

PARAM Shivay