SSC General Science & Technology Sample Paper NCERT Sample Paper-7

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    Consider the following statements
    1. Supercomputer Saga-220 is capable of performing at the speed above 200 TFLOPS.
    2. India has only 2 supercomputer systems on the Top 500 supercomputers list of the world. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

    A)  Only 1 

    B)  Only 2

    C)  Both 1 and 2

    D)  neither 1 nor 2

    Correct Answer: A

    Solution :

    [a] SAGA built by ISRO, is capable of performing at 450,000 gigaflop/s (450 teraflop/s). PARAM 8000 is considered India's first super computer. It was indigenously built in 1990 by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing and was replicated and installed at ICAD Moscow in 1991 under Russian collaboration. As of November 2015, India has 11 systems on the Top 500 list ranking 96, 119, 145, 166, 251, 286, 300, 313, 316, 380 and 397.


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