The correct answer is 3.3 petaflops. Explanation & Key Takeaways: • Recently, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru installed the supercomputer 'Param Pravega'. • It has a supercomputing capacity of 3.3 petaflops. • It has been installed under the government’s National Supercomputing Mission. • 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. • In 2020, PARAM Siddhi, the High-Performance Computing-Artificial Intelligence (HPC-AI) supercomputer, achieved a global ranking of 62nd in the Top 500 most powerful supercomputer systems in the world. Important Notes: • Petaflop is a measure of a Supercomputer’s processing speed. • It can be expressed as a thousand trillion floating-point operations per second. • FLOPS (floating-point operations per second) are typically used to measure the performance of a computer’s processor. • Supercomputers are primarily designed to be used in enterprises and organizations that require massive computing power. • For example weather forecasting, scientific research, intelligence gathering, and analysis, data mining, etc. • China has the maximum number of supercomputers and maintains the top position in the world, followed by the US, Japan, France, Germany, Netherlands, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Related Concepts: • National Supercomputing Mission • In 2015, the National Supercomputing Mission was launched to enhance the research capacities and capabilities • To form a Supercomputing grid, with National Knowledge Network (NKN) as the backbone. • The NKN project is aimed at establishing a strong and robust Indian network that will be capable of providing secure and reliable connectivity. • It supports the government's vision of 'Digital India' and 'Make in India' initiatives. • The Mission is being jointly steered by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).