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Who played an important role in developing the first supercomputer in India ?

A.
APJ Abdul Kalam
B.
Anil Kakodkar
C.
Raghunath Mashelkar
D.
Vijay Bhatkar

Solution:

The correct answer is Vijay Bhatkar. Supercomputer in India:PARAM-Siddhi is the second Indian supercomputer to be entered in the top 100 on the Top500 listPratyush, a supercomputer used for weather forecasting at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, ranked 78th on the November edition of the listIndias newest and fastest supercomputer, PARAM-Siddhi AI, has been ranked 63rd in the Top500 list of most powerful supercomputers in the world. Vijay P. BhatkarBhatkar is best known as the architect of India's national initiative in supercomputing where he led the development of Param supercomputers. He developed the first Indian supercomputer, the PARAM 8000, in 1991 and later the PARAM 10000 in 1998. Based on the PARAM series of supercomputers, he built the National Param Supercomputing Facility (NPSF) which is now made available as a grid computing facility through the Garuda grid on the National Knowledge Network (NKN) providing nationwide access to High-Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure. Currently, Bhatkar is working on exascale supercomputing via the capability, capacity, and infrastructure of NKN. He has also been involved with ICT initiatives such as the development of GIST multilingual technology, MKCL's computer literacy program for computers, and Education to Home (ETH) for providing coaching on ICT-related examinations.

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