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Which country is operationalise the ’exascale supercomputer’ by 2020
A
China
B
US
C
Russia
D
France
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -China has operationalised a prototype exascale computing machine, the next-generation supercomputer, according to the developers.

Detailed explanation-2: -One of the fastest supercomputer in India is PARAM Ananta which was launched on May 30, 2022, at IIT, Gandhinagar. This supercomputer was developed under the NSM by C-DAC and IIT Gandhinagar. It is at 102 positions among the world’s top 500 supercomputers, with a peak performance of 3.3 Petaflops.

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: -Supercomputer Fugaku, housed at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan, scored 442.01PFLOP/s in the HPL test. It is built on the Fujitsu A64FX microprocessor and has 7, 630, 848 cores.

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