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A stalagmite is built up on the floor of a limestone cave by water that seeps in from above, so the agent at work is underground water.

The three PARAM Rudra systems dedicated in 2024 under the National Supercomputing Mission went to the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope near Pune for radio astronomy, the Inter-University Accelerator Centre at New Delhi for research in physics and materials, and the S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences at Kolkata…

The ladder of units rises by a factor of a thousand at each step: a megaflop is a million operations in a second, a gigaflop is a billion, a teraflop is a thousand billion, which is one trillion, and a petaflop is a thousand trillion.

The Top500 list has been published twice a year since 1993 and ranks the five hundred most powerful computer systems that have been measured, using the LINPACK benchmark, which times a machine while it solves a large system of linear equations.

SAGA-220 was built in 2011 at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, and its name stands for Supercomputer for Aerospace with GPU Architecture, the figure 220 marking a speed of about 220 teraflops.

Pratyush was commissioned in 2018 under the Ministry of Earth Sciences and is the larger of the two machines the ministry uses for weather and climate modelling.

A supercomputer is built for scientific calculation on decimal numbers, so the useful measure is how many such operations it finishes in a second, not how fast a single chip ticks.

The National Supercomputing Mission, launched in 2015, is run jointly by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and the Department of Science and Technology, and the work on the ground is carried out by C-DAC Pune along with the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.

C-DAC was set up at Pune in 1988 as a scientific society of the central government, with the specific task of designing an Indian supercomputer after the United States declined to supply the Cray machine India had sought for weather forecasting.

He was the founding Director General of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, set up at Pune in 1988, and he led the team that delivered PARAM 8000 in 1991.

PARAM Ganga was set up at IIT Roorkee in 2022 under the second phase of the National Supercomputing Mission, and it was designed and installed by C-DAC.

PARAM Shivay was commissioned in 2019 at the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, and it was the first supercomputer assembled within India under the National Supercomputing Mission.

PARAM 8000 was built by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing at Pune and was unveiled in 1991, three years after C-DAC itself was set up in 1988.

The Kaleshwaram project lifts water from the Godavari in the north of Telangana and carries it in stages through pump houses, tunnels and reservoirs to the drier districts of the plateau, which lie at a higher level than the river.

The Sammakka Saralamma Jatara, also called the Medaram Jatara, is held once in two years at Medaram in Mulugu district, in the forest tract of the former Warangal region.

He was the fifth ruler of the Qutb Shahi dynasty of Golconda, and he founded the city of Hyderabad and raised the Charminar there in 1591.

Bathukamma is celebrated for nine days during Navaratri, when women arrange seasonal flowers, chiefly the yellow tangedu, in the shape of a cone on a brass plate, sing and move around it in the evening, and finally float it in a tank or a stream.

The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 fixed 2 June 2014 as the appointed day, and from that date Telangana existed as the twenty-ninth state of India.

The temple at Palampet in Mulugu district was built in 1213 during the reign of the Kakatiya ruler Ganapati Deva, by his general Recherla Rudra, and it is dedicated to Shiva as Rudreswara.

Bonalu is celebrated in the month of Ashada, roughly July and August, when women carry cooked rice with milk and jaggery in decorated pots on their heads as an offering to the goddess Mahakali.