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QFirst supercomputer developed in India is

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  • A PARAM ✔ ✖
  • B CRAY-1 ✔ ✖
  • C PARAM ISHAN ✔ ✖
  • D EPRAM ✔ ✖
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These are the fastest and most expensive machines. They have high processing speed compared to other computers. Supercomputers are most powerful, large in size and memory, compared to all other computers. The speed of supercomputers are measured in FLOPS (Floating Point Operations Per Second).

Supercomputers are used for highly calculation intensive tasks, such as weather forecasting, nuclear research, military agencies and scientific research laboratories.

(i) CRAY-1 was the world’s first supercomputer introduced by Seymour R CRAY in 1976.
(ii) PARAM was the first supercomputer developed in India in 1990.
(iii) PARAM ISHAN is the latest machine in the series of PARAM made by C-DAC and IIT Guwahati on 20th September, 2016.

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