SUPER COMPUTER-  Information Technology & Cyber Laws 2

SUPER COMPUTER

Father of Super computer

Ans : Seymour Cray

Super computers are used for very complex calculations. Used for the applications in aerospace, oil explorations, geology, molecular dynamics etc.

PARAM is a series of Super computers developed by C-DAC in Pune under the leadership of Dr. Vijay P. Bhatkar.

C-DAC was setup in 1988

First director of CDAC

Ans : Dr. Vijay P. Bhatkar

Super computer developed by ISRO in 2011 - SAGA-220

World’s fastest super computer 

Ans : Sunway Taihulight 

Super computer developed by India are 

Ans : KKA,PARAM,Kabru,Blue Gene

NASA’s Altix super computer named after Kalpana chawla

Ans : KC

First super computer 

Ans : CDC 6600

India’s first super computer 

Ans : Param 8,000

India’s fastest super computer 

Ans : Param Yuva II (developed by - C-DAC)

First super computer reached teraflop speed

Ans : ASCI Red

The super computer ‘Param Kanchenjunga’ was launched in

Ans : Sikkim

FLOPS

Commonly computing power (processing speed) of super computer is measured in

Ans : Flops (FLOPS -Floating Point Operations Per Second)