With reference to Supercomputers, consider the following statements:1.Param Shivay is India’s first indigenously assembled Supercomputer.2.Computational chemistry and Molecular Dynamics are two important application areas of supercomputing technology.Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

[A] 1 only

[B] 2 only

[C] Both 1 and 2

[D] Neither 1 nor 2

Answer: C

Notes:

Both statements are correct.

India’s first supercomputer was PARAM 8000.
PARAM Shivay, the first supercomputer assembled indigenously,was installed in IIT (BHU), followed by PARAM Shakti, PARAM Brahma, PARAM Yukti, PARAM Sanganak at IIT-Kharagpur, IISER, Pune, JNCASR, Bengaluru and IIT Kanpur respectively.
Application areas: Climate Modelling, Weather Prediction, Aerospace Engineering including CFD, CSM, CEM, Computational Biology, Molecular Dynamics,Atomic Energy Simulations, National Security/ Defence Applications, Seismic Analysis, Disaster Simulations and Management, Computational Chemistry, Computational Material Science and Nanomaterials, Discoveries beyond Earth (Astrophysics), Large Complex Systems Simulations and Cyber Physical Systems, Big Data Analytics, Finance, Information repositories/ Government Information Systems.

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