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2018

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which minister launched a 2.8 PetaFlop capacity high-performance computer system ‘Mihir’ in Noida?
A
Shri Harshvardhan
B
Shri Giriraj Singh
C
Shri Naresh Singh
D
Shri Arun Jaitley
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -India’s fastest and first multi-petaflops supercomputer Pratyush was established at Pune-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) and will be a national facility for improving weather and climate forecasts under the umbrella of the MoES. Petaflops is a measure of a computers processing speed.

Detailed explanation-2: -Prathyush and Mihir are the supercomputers established at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune and National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecast (NCMRWF), Noida respectively.

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