{"id":103260,"date":"2020-10-24T09:19:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T09:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=103260"},"modified":"2020-10-24T09:19:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T09:19:56","slug":"national-supercomputing-mission-nsm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/national-supercomputing-mission-nsm\/","title":{"rendered":"National Supercomputing Mission (NSM)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Department of Science and Technology announced that the third phase of the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) will commence in-<\/strong><br>(a) December 2020<br>(b) November 2020<br>(c) January 2021<br>(d) None of the above<br><strong>Answer: (c)<br>Related Facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>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.<\/li><li>The mission will do forward with enhancing the computing speed to around 45 petaflops in the country.<\/li><li>The NSM is rapidly boosting high power computing in the country through its various phases.<\/li><li>It will meet the increasing computational demands of academia, researchers, medium, small and micro enterprises and start-ups.<\/li><li>It will cover the areas like oil exploration, flood prediction as also genomics, and drug discovery.<\/li><li>The Rs 4,500 crore-National Supercomputers Mission (NSM) envisages nearly 50 supercomputers across the country in three phases.<\/li><li>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.<\/li><li>According to the Phase III, to be initiated in January 2021, (it) will take the computing speed to around 45 petaflops.<\/li><li>Department of Science and Technology (DST) explained following facts about NSM-<\/li><li>The NSM is jointly steered by the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) and Department of Science and Technology (DST).<\/li><li>The Mission is being implemented by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.<\/li><li>Param Shivay, the first supercomputer assembled indigenously, was installed in IIT (BHU).<\/li><li>It then followed two more supercomputers by Param Shakti and Param Brahma at IIT-Kharagpur and IISER, Pune, respectively.<\/li><li>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.<\/li><li>In Phase II, eight more institutions will be equipped with supercomputing facilities by April 2021, with a total of 10 PF compute capacity.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u0938\u0902\u092c\u0902\u0927\u093f\u0924 \u0932\u093f\u0902\u0915 \u092d\u0940 \u0926\u0947\u0916\u0947\u0902\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Links:-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/economy-policy\/third-phase-of-national-supercomputing-mission-to-start-in-jan-next-year-120102101418_1.html\">https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/economy-policy\/third-phase-of-national-supercomputing-mission-to-start-in-jan-next-year-120102101418_1.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 aboveAnswer: (c)Related Facts:- On 21 October 2020; 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