Q. Which of the following supercomputers was the first supercomputer assembled indigenously?
Answer:
Param Shivay
Notes:
- The PARAM ANANTA Supercomputer was commissioned at IIT Gandhinagar. PARAM ANANTA Supercomputer was dedicated to the nation under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).
- PARAM Shivay, the first supercomputer assembled indigenously, was installed in IIT (BHU), followed by PARAM Shakti, PARAM Brahma, PARAM Yukti, PARAM Sanganak at IIT-Kharagpur IISER, Pune, JNCASR, Bengaluru and IIT Kanpur, IIT Hyderabad, NABI Mohali, CDAC Bengaluru respectively.
- PARAM Siddhi - AI, the high-performance computing-artificial intelligence (HPC-AI) supercomputer, has achieved global ranking of 62 in the TOP 500 most powerful supercomputer systems in the world, released on 16th November 2020.