IISc. Bengaluru Commissions one of India’s most powerful supercomputers ‘Param Pravega’

IISc. Bengaluru Commissions one of India’s most powerful supercomputers ‘Param Pravega’

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Category : Science and Tech Published on: February 05 2022

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The Indian Institute of Science (IISc.), Bengaluru, has installed and commissioned ‘Param Pravega’, one of the most powerful supercomputers in India.
It is also the largest supercomputer commissioned in an Indian educational institution.
Param Pravega has a total supercomputing capacity of 3.3 petaflops (1 petaflop equals a quadrillion, or 1015 operations per second).
The supercomputer has been designed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
It has been developed under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), a joint initiative of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), and implemented by C-DAC and IISc.

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