Pratyush - India's fastest Supercomputer

Union Minister for Science and Technology Harsh Vardhan on 8th January 2018 dedicated India’s fastest and first ‘multi-petaflops’ supercomputer Pratyush to the nation at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune. Christened ‘Pratyush’, meaning the sun, the High Performance Computing (HPC) facility has been established at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, and will be a national facility for improving weather and climate forecasts, an IITM release said. While inaugurating the facility, the minister said that it would be India’s number one HPC facility in terms of peak capacity and performance.

Pratyush has 6.8 PF computational power installed at two MoES Institutes. 4.0 Peta Flops HPC facility at IITM, Pune and 2.8 Peta Flops facility at NCMRWF, Noida. (PF is a measure of a computer’s processing speed). Pratyush is fourth fastest supercomputer in world dedicated for weather and climate research. It follows supercomputing machines in Japan, US and United Kingdom. It will improve rankings of Indian supercomputer from 300s to 30s in Top500 list, a respected international tracker of the world’s fastest supercomputers. The key function of the High Performance Computing (HPC) facility will be monsoon forecasting using dynamical model which requires simulating weather for given month and letting custom-built model calculate impact of actual weather over coming months. It will enable to map regions in India at resolution of 3 km and globe at 12 km.

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Praksh Javadekar launched PARAM-ISHAN supercomputer at IIT, Guwahati

Union Human Resource Development Minister Shri Praksh Javadekar launched PARAM-ISHAN supercomputing facility at IIT, Guwahati on 19th September, 2016. “It is a one of the glad moment to have fastest and most powerful computer in northeastern, eastern and southern regions” he said after launching the PARAM-ISHAN super computer.

The IITs are modern temples for development and we reiterated our commitment to give a big push to research and innovations by empowering the educational institutes to transform into higher seats of learning and platforms for advanced research. A nations’ potential for growth today, is evaluated on the quality of its research and development. He also expressed that, C-DAC and IIT Guwahati is a strategic move that will provide a boost to both the HPC users and the community through the deployed PARAM-ISHAN and several technology areas will be positively affected through the introduction of the new Supercomputer.

Prof. Gautam Biswas, Director, IIT Guwahati said that PARAM-ISHAN have power of 250 Teraflops and three hundred tera bites capacity and this will not only augment the research initiatives in the Institute, but also help in creating an ecosystem for attracting right talents to the field of research. He also opinioned that, happy to have partnership with C-DAC on this initiative, they have proved themselves in the field and we look forward to collaborate further on new and emerging areas of science. PARAM-ISHAN can be used in the application areas like Computational Chemistry, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Computational Electromagnetic, Civil Engineering Structures, Nana-block Self Assemble, Optimization etc. North East India receives heavy rainfall during monsoon, which leads to flooding and landslides. PARAM-ISHAN can be used for Weather, climate modeling and seismic data processing.

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China makes world’s fastest computer 'Sunway-TaihuLight'

China has invented what it calls the world’s fastest computer - 'Sunway-TaihuLight'. The new Chinese computer system can make 93 quadrillions calculations per second .This supercomputer called Sunway-TaihuLight developed by the National Research Centre of Parallel Computer Engineering and Technology (NRCPC) is built entirely using processors designed and made in China, state-media reported. Sunway TaihuLight, with a new system built entirely using processors designed and made in China topped the list of the Top 500 supercomputers with 93 quadrillion calculations per second, according to the newest edition of the list which was announced at the 2016 International Supercomputing Conference in Germany.

Supercomputer Sunway-TaihuLight Highlights: 

• As of June 2016 the fastest supercomputer in the world is the Sunway TaihuLight, with a Linpack benchmark of 93 petaFLOPS(PFLOPS), exceeding the previous record holder, Tianhe-2, by around 59 PFLOPS.
• The computing power of the supercomputer is provided by a China-developed many-core CPU chip, which is just 25 square cm.
• It is installed at the National Supercomputing Centre in China displaced Tianhe-2, an Intel-based Chinese supercomputer that has claimed the top 1 spot on the past six TOP500 lists.
• Sunway TaihuLight is twice as fast and three times as efficient as Tianhe-2, which posted a performance of 33.86 quadrillions of calculations per second.
• The system will be used for various research and engineering work, in areas such as climate, weather & earth systems modeling, life science research, advanced manufacturing, and data analytics.
• Titan, a Cray X40 system installed at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is now at the third position, with 17.59 quadrillions of calculations per second.
• Sequoia, an IBM BlueGene/Q system installed at DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Fujitsu’s K computer installed at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) in Japan are at the fourth and fifth positions respectively.

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e-mail inventor Ray Tomlinson passes away at 74

Ray Tomlinson, the inventor of email and the man who picked the @ symbol for addresses, passed away at the age of 74 in Washington on 6th March 2016. Tomlinson invented direct electronic messages between users on different machines on a certain network in 1971. Before that, users could only write messages to others using the same computer. 

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कम्प्यूटर के आविष्कारक

कम्प्यूटर के आविष्कारक
• चार्ल्स बाबेज: कंप्यूटर के जनक एवं पिता
• टिम बर्नर्स-ली: वर्ल्ड वाइड वेब (WWW) के आविष्कारक
• एडा लॉरेंस: दुनिया  की पहली कंप्यूटर प्रोग्रामर।
• एडम ओसबोर्न: पोर्टेबल कंप्यूटर के आविष्कारक।
• अलेक्जेंडर ग्राहम बेल: टेलीफोन के आविष्कारक
• बॉब बीमर:  ASCII के आविष्कारक
• क्रिस्टोफर शॉल्स: टाइपराइटर और पहली QWERTY कीबोर्ड के आविष्कारक।
• डेविड हुफ्फमैन: Huffman कोडिंग के आविष्कारक
• डेविड पैकर्ड : हेवलेट - पैकर्ड (HP) कंपनी के सह - संस्थापक ।
• डग एंजेलबर्ट : कंप्यूटर माउस के आविष्कारक ।
• एडगर कॉड: कंप्यूटर वैज्ञानिक और डेटाबेस प्रबंधन के लिए रिलेशनल मॉडल के आविष्कारक।
• गैरी स्टार्कवेदर : लेजर प्रिंटर के आविष्कारक ।
• जेम्स रसेल: डिजिटल कॉम्पैक्ट डिस्क (CD) के आविष्कारक ।
• जॉन एटानासौफ : पहले डिजिटल कंप्यूटर के आविष्कारक ।
• जॉन बेयर्ड : दुनिया के पहले मैकेनिकल टेलीविजन का आविष्कारक
• यूसुफ लिखलिदेर: ARPANET एवं इंटरनेट  के आविष्कारक
• मार्क ज़ुकेरबर्ग: फेसबुक के सह-संस्थापक
• लैरी पेज: Google कंपनी के सह-संस्थापक
• स्टीव जॉब्स: iPhone निर्माता एप्पल के सह-संस्थापक

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Famous Websites and their Founders

Famous Websites and their Founders:
1. Google  =  Larry Page & Sergey Brin
2. Facebook =  Mark Zuckerberg
3. Yahoo =  David Filo & Jerry Yang
4. Twitter =  Jack Dorsey & Dick Costolo
5. Internet =  Tim Berners Lee
6. Linkdin =  Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue& Koonstantin Guericke
6. Like Kin India Page to Get information everyday.
7. Email =  Shiva Ayyadurai
8. Gtalk =  Richard Wah kan
9. Whats up  =  Laurel Kirtz
10. Hotmail =  Sabeer Bhatia
11. Orkut =  Buyukkokten
12. Wikipedia =  Jimmy Wales
13. You tube =  Steve Chen, Chad Hurley & JawedKarim
14. Rediffmail =  Ajit Balakrishnan
15. Nimbuzz =  Martin Smink & Evert Jaap Lugt
16. Myspace =  Chris Dewolfe & Tom Anderson
17. Ibibo  =  Ashish Kashyap
18. OLX =  Alec Oxenford & Fabrice Grinda
19. Skype =  Niklas Zennstrom,Janus Friis & Reid Hoffman
20. Opera =  Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner & Geir lvarsoy
21. Mozilla Firefox =  Dave Hyatt & Blake Ross
22. Blogger =  Evan Willam Belli

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India's first computer installed ?

India's first computer installed: First Computer in india is installed at Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata in 1995, it was the first in Asia, outside Japan. DDM lights up a Wills Navy Cut cigarette and adds that ISI had the distinction of developing the first Indian analog computer as well. Nehru came to meet the computer that solved a 10 x 10 single precision matrix in 90 minutes

Indian Statistical Institute is the first institute:

-  in Asia to acquire a digital computer.

- in India to participate in successfully building an indigenous digital computer. 

About ISI Kolkata: Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), a unique P. C. Mahalanobish institution devoted to the research, teaching and application of statistics, natural sciences and social sciences. Founded by Professor P.C. Mahalanobis in Kolkata on 17th December, 1931, the institute gained the status of an Institution of National Importance by an act of the Indian Parliament in 1959. The Headquarters of ISI is located in the northern fringe of the metropolis of Kolkata.

Quiz. Where was India's first computer installed at ?

A. Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta

B. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

C. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
D. Indian Iron & Steel Co.Ltd., Burnpur
Ans: A

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Who is the inventor of www - Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor of www. Tim Berners-Lee was born in London, England and graduated in Physics from Oxford University in 1976. He is currently the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, the group that sets technical standards for the Web. Tim Berners-Lee was the man leading the development of the World Wide Web (with help of course), the defining of HTML (hypertext markup language) used to create web pages, HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) and URLs (Universal Resource Locators). All of those developments took place between 1989 and 1991.

Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the Web's continued development. He is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, and is a senior researcher and holder of the Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He is a director of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI), and a member of the advisory board of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.

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Steve Jobs & Dennis Ritchie

Steve Jobs & Dennis Ritchie
✔ Without Steve Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) we would have:
• No iProducts.
• No over expensive laptops.
✔ Without Dennis Ritchie (September 9, 1941 – October 9, 2011) we would have:
• No Windows.
• No Unix.
• No C.
• No Programs.
• A large setback in computing.
• No Generic-text Languages.
• We would all read in Binary.
✔ They died in the same year and the same month but it seems only few notice the death of Dennis Ritchie compared to Steve Jobs.
✔ It won't cost you anything to press the share button so spread, Both of these genius ... people should be knowing of both.

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Who is Father of Computer ?

Q. Who is the Father of Computer ?
A. Charles Babbage
B. Larry Page
C. Tim Berner Lee
D. Bill Gates
Ans: A

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First Computer Software Patent Holder - Martin Goetz

Martin Goetz, is the Man who was awarded the first patent on a piece of software in April 1968, for a method of sorting data. In 1968, Martin Goetz received the first ever software patent, for an "improved data sorting algorithm". Little did he know that he'd set a precedent which would, over time, turn into a legal shit storm.

Martin A. Goetz was born on April 22, 1930 was a pioneer in the development of the commercial software industry. He holds the first software patent, and was product manager of Autoflow from Applied Data Research (ADR), which is generally cited as the first commercial software application

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