At which Indian Institution did President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu, inaugurate 'PARAM KAMRUPA' Supercomputer facility in October 2022?

Correct Answer is IIT Guwahati

Key Points:

• President of India Droupadi Murmu, on October 13, inaugurated ‘PARAM Kamrupa’ Supercomputer facility and a high-power active and passive component laboratory of SAMEER at the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati on the first day of her visit to the State.
• The Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering and Research (SAMEER) is a Research & Development Institute under the administrative control of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India.
• Centre for High Power Microwave Tube & Component Technology (CHMTCT) under SAMEER, located in IIT Guwahati, Assam, has been started in 2015 with a specialization in the area of high-power microwave tube and component technology.
• The PARAM Kamrupa, one of its kind supercomputer in the North East region, is installed under the National Supercomputing Mission.
• The Super Computer Param Kamrupa will provide advanced computing, and healthcare techniques along with solutions for many issues to this region.
• She also informed that many components of this supercomputer were developed indigenously.

Additional Information

• The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instructions per second (MIPS).
• Since 2017, there have existed supercomputers that can perform over 1017 FLOPS (a hundred quadrillion FLOPS, 100 petaFLOPS or 100 PFLOPS).