National Super Computing Mission: Three More Super Computers to be installed

Important Dates

• Online Application Start : 16 October 2019
• Registration Last Date : 11 November 2019
• Fee Payment Last Date : 11 November 2019
• Complete Form Last Date : 13 November 2019
• Exam Date : December 2019
• Admit Card Available : 02 December 2019
• Answer Key Available : 17 December 2019
• Result Available : 18 February 2020
• Mains Online Form Start : 26 February 2020
• Mains Online Form Last Date : 06 March 2020
• Complete Form Last Date : 20 March 2020
• Mains Exam Date : 20 April 2020
• New Mains Exam Date : Notified Soon

Top 5 Super Computers in India

The Super Computer (Pratyush) at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology India is ranked 39^th, National Centre for Medium Weather Forecasting has been ranked 66^th, etc. The first rank Super Computer is located in Ridge National Laboratory, US called Summit.

Highlights

The mission is jointly operated by the Ministry of Electronics and IT, C-DAC, Ministry of Science and Technology and IISc, Bengaluru. So far under the mission, “Param Shivay” was installed in IIT Bhuvaneshwar, Param Brahma and Param Shakti installed in IISER, Pune, and IIT-Kharagpur.

2020-21 Targets

This year is highly important for the mission. This is because, 11 new systems are to be installed in NITs, IITs, and IISERs by December 2020. Three more Super Computers are to be installed at IIT-Kanpur, IIT-Hyderabad and JN Centre for Advanced Scientific Research by April 2020.