More and More Supercomputers: National Supercomputing Mission. ~Preet The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru has installed the supercomputer 'Param Pravega.' It boasts 3.3 petaflops of supercomputing power. It was built as part of the government's National Supercomputing Mission. The National Supercomputing Mission aims to localise the research and production of powerful computers. A supercomputer is a computer that operates at or near the greatest operating rate currently available for computers. PETAFLOP is a measure of the processing speed of a Supercomputer and may be represented as a thousand trillion floating point operations per second. FLOPS (floating point operations per second) are commonly used to assess a computer's processor performance. Extremely lengthy numbers can be handled reasonably simply with floating-point encoding. Supercomputers are generally intended for usage in businesses and organisations that demand a large amount of computational