PARAM Ganga is the Made in India Petascale supercomputer installed at __________ under National Supercomputing

Correct option is D

The correct answer is (D)   ​IIT Roorkee

1. PARAM Ganga is an Indian-made petascale supercomputer with a computing capacity of 1.66 Petaflops (Peta Floating-Point Operations Per Second). It was installed at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, Uttarakhand, and became operational on March 7, 2022.

2. The supercomputer facility was inaugurated by B.V.R. Mohan Reddy, Chairman of the Board of Governors at IIT Roorkee.

3. PARAM Ganga was developed as part of Phase 2 of the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM). The design and deployment were carried out by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) under the mission’s strategic plan.

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Features of PARAM Ganga

• All hardware components and software are entirely produced and assembled within India.
• This High-Performance Computing (HPC) system supports advanced research and development (R&D) in various fields of science and engineering, addressing critical national and global challenges.
• PARAM Ganga also provides computational resources for IIT Roorkee’s researchers and nearby academic institutions to foster innovation and learning.

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