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IIT Guwahati
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IIT Bombay
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IIT Delhi
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IIT BHU
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Detailed explanation-1: -President Droupadi Murmu inaugurates ‘PARAM KAMRUPA’ Supercomputer facility at IIT Guwahati.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Param-Kamrupa has 838 teraflops. A teraflop is a measure of a computer’s speed and can be expressed as a trillion floating point operations per second. An average gaming PC has a processing power of around 3-4 teraflops.
Detailed explanation-4: -One of the fastest supercomputer in India is PARAM Ananta which was launched on May 30, 2022, at IIT, Gandhinagar. This supercomputer was developed under the NSM by C-DAC and IIT Gandhinagar. It is at 102 positions among the world’s top 500 supercomputers, with a peak performance of 3.3 Petaflops.