{"id":102554,"date":"2020-10-14T07:23:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T07:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=102554"},"modified":"2020-10-14T07:23:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T07:23:22","slug":"agreements-for-supercomputing-infrastructure-in-premier-institutions-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/agreements-for-supercomputing-infrastructure-in-premier-institutions-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Agreements for Supercomputing Infrastructure in Premier Institutions in India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is located in-<br><\/strong>a) Mumbai<br>b) Kolkata<br>c) Pune<br>d) New Delhi<br><strong>Answer: (c)<br>Related Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On 12 October 2020; MoUs were signed to establish supercomputing infrastructure in premier institutions in India.<\/li><li>In this regard, 13 MoUs were signed with the premier academic and R&amp;D institutions by C-DAC.<\/li><li>The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is, an autonomous body under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, located in Pune.<\/li><li>This agreement will help the major institutions of India to establish supercomputing infrastructure with assembly and manufacturing for the National Supercomputing Mission in the country.<\/li><li>The mission is being implemented and steered jointly by the DST and the Department of Electronics and Information Technology for seven years.<\/li><li>The objective is to make India one of the world leaders in supercomputing.<\/li><li>According to an official statement this is the Rs 4,500-crore mission envisages empowering our national academic and R&amp;D institutions spread over the country.<\/li><li>Under this mission by a vast supercomputing grid comprising more than 70 high-performance computing facilities will be installed.<\/li><li>It also includes the development of highly professional High-Performance Computing (HPC) aware human resource for meeting the challenges of development of these applications.<\/li><li>The implementation of the mission will bring supercomputing within the reach of the large scientific and technology community.<\/li><li>It will enable the country with a capacity to solve multi-disciplinary grand challenge problems.<\/li><li>The MoU was signed with a host of institutes like IIT Kharagpur, IISC Bangalore, IIT Kanpur, IIT Roorkee, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Guwahati, IIT Mandi, IIT Gandhinagar etc.<\/li><li>MoU signing with the premier institutes is being considered as the beginning of Aatmanirbhar Bharat.<\/li><li><strong>Benefits related to supercomputing:-<\/strong><\/li><li>Supercomputing is the key to so many areas like Computational Biology, Molecular Dynamics, National Security, Computational Chemistry etc.<\/li><li>It is also useful for Cyber-Physical Systems, Big Data Analytics and Government Information Systems.<\/li><li>Supercomputing is armed with artificial intelligence and machine learning makes it a formidable tool.<\/li><li>Progress in this mission will break silos to empower people and make India future-ready and tackle future challenges.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By &#8211; Rajesh Tripathi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/industry\/technology\/top-academic-institutes-sign-mous-for-establishing-supercomputing-infrastructure-in-india\/2104541\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/industry\/technology\/top-academic-institutes-sign-mous-for-establishing-supercomputing-infrastructure-in-india\/2104541\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is located in-a) Mumbaib) Kolkatac) Puned) New DelhiAnswer: (c)Related Facts: On 12 October 2020; MoUs were signed to establish supercomputing infrastructure in premier institutions in India. 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