Science and Tech

Question 1

Recently IIT Roorkee got supercomputer named _____? under National Supercomputing Mission.What is its computer power?

Answer 1

IIT Roorkee got PARAM Ganga petascale super computer.

Computer power-1.66 petaflops.

Question 2

National super computing mission is an initiative under which entities? Who are implementing it?

Answer 2

NSM is an initiative by Ministry of electronics and information technology(MeITY) and Department of Science and technology.

It is being implemented by IISc Bengaluru and C-DAC(Centre for development of advanced computing)

Question 3

What is the aim of NSM ? What has been its progress so far…?

Answer 3

The aim of NSM is to build(indigenously) and deploy 24 Super computers with a cumulative computer power of 64 petaflops .

So far it has deployed 11 Super computers of a cumulative computer power of 20 petaflops.

Question 4

How many phases does NSM have?

Answer 4

NSM has 2 phases.

Question 5

WHICH IS THE WORLD 2 LARGEST AND ASIA FIRST LARGEST LAGOON?

Answer 5

CHILIKA LAKE

Question 6

UNDER WHICH CONVENTION AND WHEN WAS CHILIKA FIRST DISCOVERED WETLAND LAKE?

Answer 6

RAMSAR CONVENTION ; 1981

Question 7

THE RECENT BIRD CENSUS IS UNDERTAKEN IN CHILIKA IS BY WHICH ORGANISATION?

Answer 7

ODISHA STATE WILDLIFE ORGANISATION , CDA( CHILIKA DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY) ; BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY