C-DAC Commissions “PARAM Ganga” Supercomputer at IIT Roorkee under National Supercomputing Mission

C-DAC Commissions “PARAM Ganga” Supercomputer at IIT Roorkee under National Supercomputing Mission

  • The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) has designed and commissioned a supercomputer named “PARAM Ganga”,  at IIT Roorkee on March 07, 2022, under Phase II of National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).
  • PARAM Ganga has a supercomputing capacity of 1.66 Petaflops.

About National Supercomputing Mission (NSM)

  • NSM is a joint initiative of Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeiTY) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST).
  • The mission is implemented by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.
  • The NSM Mission aims to build and deploy 24 facilities with cumulative compute power of more than 64 Petaflops.
  • Till date 11 systems have been deployed by C-DAC at IISc, IITs, IISER Pune, JNCASR, NABI-Mohali and C-DAC under NSM Phase-1 and Phase-2 with a cumulative compute power of more than 20 Petaflops.

Points to Remember:

  1. PARAM Ganga is a type of_________? Supercomputer
  2. Super computer PARAM Ganga has been installed at which institute?
  3. What is the supercomputing capacity of PARAM Ganga?
  4. National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) is launched by which ministry?
  5. National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) is implemented by which organizations?

Source: PIB

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