Question: Department of Science and Technology announced that the third phase of the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) will commence in-
(a) December 2020
(b) November 2020
(c) January 2021
(d) None of the above
Answer: (c)
Related Facts:-
- On 21 October 2020; Department of Science and Technology announced that the third phase of the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) will commence in January 2021.
- The mission will do forward with enhancing the computing speed to around 45 petaflops in the country.
- The NSM is rapidly boosting high power computing in the country through its various phases.
- It will meet the increasing computational demands of academia, researchers, medium, small and micro enterprises and start-ups.
- It will cover the areas like oil exploration, flood prediction as also genomics, and drug discovery.
- The Rs 4,500 crore-National Supercomputers Mission (NSM) envisages nearly 50 supercomputers across the country in three phases.
- The Department of Science and Technology (DST) said, as the infrastructure planned in NSM phase I has already been installed and much of Phase II is in place, the speed of supercomputers in the country will soon reach to around 16 PF.
- According to the Phase III, to be initiated in January 2021, (it) will take the computing speed to around 45 petaflops.
- Department of Science and Technology (DST) explained following facts about NSM-
- The NSM is jointly steered by the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) and Department of Science and Technology (DST).
- The Mission is being implemented by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.
- Param Shivay, the first supercomputer assembled indigenously, was installed in IIT (BHU).
- It then followed two more supercomputers by Param Shakti and Param Brahma at IIT-Kharagpur and IISER, Pune, respectively.
- Thereafter, supercomputing facilities were set up in two more institutions, and one is being set up under Phase I, ramping up high power computing speed to 6.6 PF.
- In Phase II, eight more institutions will be equipped with supercomputing facilities by April 2021, with a total of 10 PF compute capacity.
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