Summary
These computers can think a lot faster than a regular laptop, helping with weather forecasts and keeping people safe. 🌦️
The country makes its own computer parts, so it doesn’t need to buy them from other places. 🛠️
Key Points
4 points1
India started with a small computer in 1991 that could do one tiny calculation per second.
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Now there are 40 super‑fast computers that together can do 68,000,000,000,000,000 calculations each second.
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The government spent about four thousand five hundred crore Indian rupees to build them.
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These machines help predict floods, study forests, and find new medicines.
New Words to Learn
5 wordssuper‑fast computer
a very powerful machine that can solve many problems very quickly
petaflop
a way to measure speed; one petaflop means one thousand trillion calculations every second
indigenous
made inside the country, not bought from other places
strategic
important for the country's plans and safety
ecosystem
all the people, machines, and ideas that work together
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