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2019

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which IIT has signed a pact with C-DAC to build India’s first state-of-the-art 1.3 PetaFlop High-Performance Computing facility?
A
IIT Kanpur
B
IIT Kharagpur
C
IIT Indore
D
IIT Madras
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -High-Performance Computation based R&D in India is going to witness a new phase with the setting up of India’s first state-of-the-art 1.3 PetaFlop High-Performance Computing facility and datacenter ecosystem at IIT Kharagpur under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).

Detailed explanation-2: -PARAM Shakti”, a Petascale Supercomputer “at IIT Kharagpur, has been dedicated to the nation under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) - a joint initiative of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and Department of Science and Technology (DST).

Detailed explanation-3: -Our Mission Expand the frontiers of Electronics and Information Technology. Evolve technology solutions - architectures, systems and standards for nationally important problems. Achieve rapid and effective spread of knowledge by overcoming language barriers through application of technologies.

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