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Detailed explanation-1: -Indian Prime Minister has recently inaugurated ‘Param Shivay’ Supercomputer of 833 teraflop capacity built at the cost of Rs 32.5 crore under the National Super Computing Mission at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Banaras Hindu University (BHU).

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -PARAM means “supreme” in the Sanskrit language, whilst also creating an acronym for “PARAllel Machine". As of November 2022 the fastest machine in the series is the PARAM Siddhi AI which ranks 120th in world, with an Rpeak of 5.267 petaflops.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Vijay P. Bhatkar is best known as the architect of India’s national initiative in supercomputing where he led the development of Param supercomputers. He developed the first Indian supercomputer, the PARAM 8000, in 1991.