National Supercomputing Mission

The supercomputer 'Param Pravega' was recently installed at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru. It has a 3.3 petaflop supercomputing capacity. It was built as part of the National Supercomputing Mission of the government.

The National Supercomputing Mission aims to bring the research and manufacturing of powerful computers back to India.

About Supercomputer

  • A supercomputer is a computer that operates at or near the greatest operational rate currently available for computers.
  • PETAFLOP stands for a thousand trillion floating point operations per second and is a measure of a Supercomputer's processing speed. FLOPS (floating point operations per second) are commonly used ....
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