- Around 50 dignitaries from BRICS nations participated in the meet.
- India was represented by Sanjeev Kumar Varshney, Advisor DST.
- The dignitaries discussed the usage of HPC and AI to tackle pandemic COVID-19 and to use it in sustainable developmental projects.
- They assured to cooperate with each other to use HPC technologies for weather-climate-environment based applications.
- India discussed the development of supercomputers by C-DAC under National Supercomputing Mission. This is in order to develop and deploy a user-friendly early warning system for flood prediction.
- China proposed AI+HPC+5G- based digital twin platform and an open-source ecosystem.
- Brazil and South Africa proposed the flagship project on Digital Earth.
- Static Part:
- 2021 Presidency of BRICS: India
Question:
Q.1 Which edition of the BRICS Working Group Meeting on High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Information Communication Technology (ICT) was held in May 2021?
a. 5th
b. 2nd
c. 7th
d. 8th
a. 5th
b. 2nd
c. 7th
d. 8th
