Why in news?

• IIT Kharagpur has launched PARAM Shakti, a Petascale Supercomputer.
• A supercomputer is a very fast computer used in advanced scientific applications.
• PARAM Shakti was developed under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).
• NSM is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and the Department of Science and Technology and implemented by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and Indian Institute of Science (BSc), Bangalore.
• NSM envisages empowering our national academic and R&D institutions by installing a vast supercomputing grid comprising of more than 70 high- performance computing (HPC) facilities.