CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Powered by Intel Xeon CPUs and NUDT’s Matrix-2000 DSP accelerators, Tianhe-2A has 4, 981, 760 cores in the system to achieve 61.4 Pflop/s. It was developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) and is deployed at the National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou, China.

Detailed explanation-2: -Soon after starting operations in 2022, Frontier took the title of the world’s fastest computer, as judged by publicly available data. It broke the so-called exascale barrier-meaning it’s able to complete more than 1 quintillion calculations in one second.

Detailed explanation-3: -PARAM Supercomputers In January, Indian Institute of Science, Karnataka, launched India’s most powerful supercomputer, Param Pravega designed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing. The computer has 4 petabytes of storage and 3.3 petaflops of peak computing power.

Detailed explanation-4: -Name of Supercomputer of India Another name of the supercomputer of India is PARAM-Siddhi, which ranks 63rd on the same list. PARAM-Siddhi is the fastest Indian supercomputer to date, kept in the headquarters of the Center for Development of Advanced Computers in Pune.