Real life complex problems and scientific and engineering research are the driving force behind the development of PARAM Padma. C-DAC's expertise also lies in developing, porting and demonstrating applications in critical scientific and engineering fields such as computational atmospheric sciences, bioinformatics, computational structural mechanics, evolutionary computing, computational chemistry, computational fluid dynamics and seismic data processing.

Bioinfomatics

	Expertise in analyzing large sequence databases using popular tools like BLAST, FASTA, Smith-Waterman for studying the functions of genes and proteins to identify drug targets.   Realistic simulations of large biomolecules using molecular modeling codes like AMBER, CHARMM & GROMACS.
Research initiatives aimed at utilizing the right combination of Genomics, Bioinformatics and High Performance Computing power for better health care.

Computational Structural Mechanics

	Specialized software for structural analysis, tuned for high-end parallel architectures, modeling and visualization tools.   FEMCOMP, a stress analysis package for fibre reinforced composite structures based on higher-order shear deformation theory.
INTEGRA, a platform independent, modeling and visualization package for structural and fluid mechanics.   NONLIN (nonlinear stability analysis of shells), a collaborative project for studying thin walled structures.   FRACT3D (fracture analysis), a parallel software based on domain decomposition.

Computational Atmospheric Science

	Medium range (3-10 days) weather forecasts and long range (~100 years) climate forecasts.   Pre-processors to ingest the Indian meteorological data into the MM5 modeling system for regional weather forecast.   Climate System Model consisting of computationally intensive components: Atmosphere model, Ocean Model, Land Model, Sea-Ice Model and Coupler.
World ocean circulation model based on the system of primitive equations for momentum, stream function, heat and salinity.

Seismic Data Processing

	WAVES, a parallel seismic modeling and migration package for seismic data processing in oil and natural gas exploration.   High precision 2-D and 3-D migration and modeling algorithms.
2-D and 3-D migration codes using wavelets.

Evolutionary Computing

	Parallel genetic algorithms based methodologies for protein structure prediction and multiple sequence alignment.   Financial modeling for analyzing stock market trends.   Internal Combustion Engine design optimization by modeling and simulation of fuel flow characteristics.
A parallel genetic algorithms library for general optimization problems.

Computational Chemistry

	INDMOL, a package developed for electronic structure and molecular properties based on theoretical quantum chemistry.   MP2 level calculations using GAMESS with much less turn around time.   Large-scale calculations of electronic structure and properties of molecules.
ab initio molecular dynamics simulation software developed and optimized.

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Simulation of external and internal flows.   Finite volume code for re-entry vehicles at hypersonic flows.   General purpose navier stokes code for large simulation.