Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.

Statement I:PARAM-Shivay supercomputer was built under the National Supercomputing Mission at IIT-BHU.

Statement II:PARAM-Shivay supercomputer is of 833 teraflop capacity.

ABoth Statement I and Statement II are true ✓ Correct

BBoth Statement I and Statement II are false

CStatement I is true but Statement II is false

DStatement I is false but Statement II is true

Correct answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement II are true

Explanation

Both statements are true, correctly placing PARAM Shivay at IIT-BHU and stating its 833 teraflop capacity.

Statement 1 is true because PARAM Shivay was the first supercomputer built under the National Supercomputing Mission.

It was installed at IIT (BHU) Varanasi in 2019.

Statement 2 is true because its peak computing capacity is 833 teraflops.

A teraflop is one trillion floating point operations per second.

The National Supercomputing Mission is run jointly by MeitY and the Department of Science and Technology.

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