{"id":11447,"date":"2023-05-25T03:26:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T21:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11447"},"modified":"2025-03-30T02:39:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T21:09:21","slug":"airawat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/airawat\/","title":{"rendered":"AIRAWAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>About Supercomputer &#8216;AIRAWAT&#8217;:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The supercomputer has been named in the 61st edition of the Top 500 Global Supercomputing List released recently.<\/li>\n<li>The AI supercomputer AIRAWAT\u2019 is <strong>installed at C-DAC, Pune.<\/strong> The system is installed under National Program on AI by the Government of India.<\/li>\n<li>AIRAWAT&#8217;s manufacturer is <strong>Netweb Technologies<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Airawat PSAI, stands as <strong>India\u2019s largest and fastest AI supercomputing<\/strong> system, with a remarkable <strong>speed of 13,170 teraflops.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Benefits:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It will empower the Academia, Research Labs, Scientific Community, Industry and Start-Ups to develop indigenous AI-enabled products\/solutions especially for solving India-specific grand challenges and complex real-life problems.<\/li>\n<li>It has the potential to revolutionize various sectors, including <strong>weather forecasting, drug discovery, climate modelling, and artificial intelligence <\/strong>research.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>About Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC):<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a prominent <strong>R&amp;D organization<\/strong> under the <strong>Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It focuses on <strong>research and development<\/strong> in various domains, <strong>including information technology, electronics, and supercomputing.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>established<\/strong> in the year <strong>1988<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>set up to build Supercomputers <\/strong>in context of denial of import of Supercomputers by USA.<\/li>\n<li>C-DAC build<strong> India\u2019s first indigenously built <\/strong>supercomputer<strong> Param 8000<\/strong> in 1991.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is PARAM 8000 supercomputer?<\/h3>\n<p>PARAM 8000 was a distributed memory MIMD architecture with a reconfigurable interconnection network. The PARAM 8000 was noted to be 28 times more powerful than the Cray X-MP that the government originally requested, for the same $10 million cost quoted for it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1926942\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">India\u2019s Airawat PSAI: Country\u2019s Fastest Supercomputer ranks 75th among Global Top 500<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The supercomputer has been named in the 61st edition of the Top 500 Global Supercomputing List<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}