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Detailed explanation-1: -As part of its tireless journey of success, NSM has now deployed “PARAM Ganga", a supercomputer at IIT Roorkee, with a supercomputing capacity of 1.66 Petaflops. The system is designed and commissioned by C-DAC under Phase 2 of the build approach of the NSM.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) has deployed ‘PARAM Ganga’, a supercomputer at IIT Roorkee, with a supercomputing capacity of 1.66 Petaflops.

Detailed explanation-4: -PARAM Pravega is a supercomputer installed under NSM at the Indian Institute of Science in January 2022.

Detailed explanation-5: -Scaling another technology feat, the first ‘Made in India’ Petascale supercomputer ‘PARAM Ganga’ has been successfully installed at IIT Roorkee. The new supercomputer is a 1.66 PFLOPS (Peta Floating-Point Operations Per Second) supercomputing device installed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC).