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Detailed explanation-1: -The IIT-BHU got ‘Param Shivay’ Supercomputer of 833 teraflop capacity built at the cost of Rs 32.5 crore .

Detailed explanation-2: -This is the first super computer developed and installed under this mission (launched in 2015 as part of Make in India initiative) in India by MeitY. It is named appropriately as PARAM SHIVAY as being first in the series and in the holy city of Varanasi (land of Baba Vishwanath).

Detailed explanation-3: -Detailed Solution. The correct answer is Pune. PARAM is a series of supercomputers designed and assembled by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in Pune, India.

Detailed explanation-4: -India’s first supercomputer is Param 8000. Developed in 1991,it is a series of gigaflop supercomputers developed by Vijay P Bhaktar, who is known as the “architect of India’s initiative in supercomputing”. PARAM stands for ‘PARAllel machine’ and was developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing(CDAC).

Detailed explanation-5: -PARAM Shivay was a high-performance, high computing cluster with 833 Teraflop capacity built at the cost of Rs 32.5 crore under the NSM at IIT-BHU. The PARAM Shivay supercomputer uses more than one lakh twenty thousand compute cores (CPU + GPU cores) to offer a peak compute power of 833 Teraflops.