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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
PARAM ANANTA Supercomputer commissioned at which IIT?
A
Hyderabad
B
Madras
C
Roorkee
D
Gandhinagar
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -PARAM ANANTA, a state-of the art Supercomputer at IIT Gandhinagar 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), was commissioned on May 30, 2022 by Smt.

Detailed explanation-2: -PARAM Ganga – High-Performance Computing (HPC) system under the NSM has been established at IIT Roorkee. The supercomputer PARAM Ganga is based on a heterogeneous and hybrid configuration of Intel Xeon Cascade lake processors, and NVIDIA Tesla V100.

Detailed explanation-3: -Deployed at IIT Guwahati, the supercomputer facility has been named after Kamrupa, the first known historical kingdom of Assam. It replaced Param-Ishan as the northeast region’s fastest and most powerful supercomputer. Param-Ishan was inaugurated in IIT Guwahati in 2016.

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: -PARAM ANANTA Supercomputer was commissioned on May 30, 2022 at IIT Gandhinagar.

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