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The Perlmutter supercomputer at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., in 2022, in a photo provided by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The new supercomputer from a Department of Energy lab shows the increasing desire of government labs to adopt more technologies from commercial artificial intelligence systems.

US Energy Department unveils supercomputer that merges with AI

June 02, 2025 9:22 am

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory expects the new machine — to be named for Jennifer Doudna, a Berkeley biochemist.

Nvidia says it will make AI supercomputers in the US amid looming tariffs, national security probe

April 16, 2025 8:01 am

It makes Nvidia the latest tech company to back Trump’s tariff-induced push for local manufacturing

UPSC Key | 27th September 2024 - India-US ties, IMF, and Supercomputers, and more

UPSC Key | India-US ties, IMF, Supercomputers, and more

September 28, 2024 9:46 am

Why and how should you read today's newspaper based on the recent trends of UPSC Prelims and Mains? How are India-US ties, IMF, and supercomputers relevant to your preparation? Don't miss out on the Thought process. Learn more by reading the Indian Express UPSC Key for September 27th, 2024.

Knowledge nugget of the day: PARAM Rudra

October 18, 2024 10:34 am

Prime Minister Modi dedicated three Param Rudra supercomputers and a High-Performance Computing System for weather and climate to the nation. What are PARAM Rudra, Arka and Arunika? Take a look.

India will unveil 18 new petaFLOP supercomputers for weather forecasting in 2023: What are FLOPs in computing?

May 26, 2023 10:43 am

FLOPs or Floating-Point Operations per Second, is a commonly used metric to measure the computational performance – processing power and efficiency – especially in the field of high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI).

IISc installs 'Param Pravega' under National Supercomputing Mission

February 03, 2022 2:37 pm

The system, which is expected to power diverse research and educational pursuits, has a supercomputing capacity of 3.3 petaflops. It is designed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC).

Two supercomputers from India in TOP500 list, one in top 100

November 18, 2020 8:40 pm

The two systems have been ranked 63rd and 146th, respectively, and remain the only two supercomputers from India in the latest list of TOP500 released on November 18.

Japan's coronavirus supercomputer named fastest in world

June 23, 2020 2:36 pm

The Fugaku supercomputer topped the world rankings at once for the first time in history. It has been put to work creating models to fight the coronavirus pandemic, but its designers now have bigger plans for it.

Once deployed, the total number of supercomputers under Rs 4,500 crore-National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) would grow to 17.

In four years of a national mission, total supercomputers built: three

March 12, 2020 12:46 pm

The MeitY and DST handle the National Supercomputer Mission, and the mission’s nodal agencies are the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune, and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.

Three indigenous supercomputers to be ready by March 2019

November 28, 2018 10:29 am

The three machines, to be fully designed, manufactured and assembled in India, are worth Rs 68 crore. They will be installed at IIT (Banaras Hindu University), Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research (IISER), Pune and IIT, Kharagpur.

Will go after other targets if no peace, says Trump as US strikes 3 nuclear sites in Iran

IndiaSeptember 25, 2025

President Donald Trump said that the United States military had struck three nuclear-related facilities in Iran, marking a dramatic escalation in the ongoing conflict and a direct American role in efforts to dismantle Tehran’s infrastructure. The strikes represent the most significant direct US military action against Iranian territory in years and come amid rising regional tensions.

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