Q. With reference to Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), consider the following statements:
1.India’s first supercomputer PARAM 8000 was indigenously built by the C-DAC.
2.It functions under the Ministry of Science and Technology.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Answer: A
Notes:
Statement 1 is correct: India’s first supercomputer PARAM 8000 was indigenously built (in 1991)by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing.
Statement 2 is incorrect: C-DAC is a premier Research and Development organization of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
Source: PIB
