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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which super-computer was ranked at 75th position at Top 500 Global Supercomputing List?
A
ARJUN
B
AIRAWAT
C
ANANYA
D
AVIGHNA
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The AI Supercomputer ‘AIRAWAT’, installed at C-DAC, Pune has been ranked 75th in the world. It was declared so in the 61st edition of Top 500 Global Supercomputing List yesterday at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC 2023) in Germany.

Detailed explanation-2: -Since June 2022, USA’s Frontier is the most powerful supercomputer on TOP500, reaching 1102 petaFlops (1.102 exaFlops) on the LINPACK benchmarks.

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: -Fugaku, Japan. Built by Fujitsu, Fugaku is installed at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) in Kobe, Japan. Summit, U.S. Sierra, U.S. Sunway TaihuLight, China. Selene, U.S. Tianhe-2A, China. JUWELS Booster Module, Germany. HPC5, Italy. More items

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