On
17 April 2016, Sikkim Governor Shrinvas Patil formally unveiled Supercomputer named ‘Param Kanchenjunga’
at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Sikkim. It is named after Kanchenjunga
Mountain (8586 m), the third highest mountain in the world. The Param
Kanchenjunga is the most powerful and fastest among all available at the 31
National Institute of Technology’s. It has been jointly developed by Pune based
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and the NIT Sikkim. The total
cost of the Supercomputer is around three crore rupees.
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