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    ________, the first ‘made in India‘ Petascale supercomputer that was deployed at HT Roorkee in March 2022, has a supercomputing capacity of 1.66 Petaflo
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    ________, the first ‘made in India‘ Petascale supercomputer that was deployed at HT Roorkee in March 2022, has a supercomputing capacity of 1.66 Petaflops.

    A.

    PARAM Brahma

    B.

    ​PARAM Ganga​

    C.

    ​PARAM Shakti​

    D.

    ​PARAM Yukti​

    Correct option is B

    •  A Made in India Petascale Supercomputer named "PARAM Ganga" with a 1.66 Petaflop (Peta Floating-Point Operations Per Second) supercomputing capacity has been deployed at IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Roorkee, Uttarakhand, as of March 7, 2022.
    • Chairman of the Board of Governors at IIT Roorkee, B.V.R. Mohan Reddy, officially opened this country's supercomputer facility.
    • The National Supercomputing Mission's Phase 2 build strategy included the design and commissioning of PARAM Ganga by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) (NSM).
    • This organisation is supported by the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that IIT Roorkee and C-DAC signed for the construction of a supercomputer that includes crucial parts such as motherboards for servers and direct contact liquid cooling data centers, among others.

    Characteristics of PARAM Ganga:

    • Only in India are its components and software stack produced and assembled.
    • It is a brand-new High-Performance Computing (HPC) facility that will quicken research and development (R&D) efforts in interdisciplinary science and engineering fields to address challenging issues of both global and national significance.
    • Additionally, it provides computing resources to the IIT Roorkee user community and nearby academic institutions.

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