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Established in
March 1988, as a Scientific Society of the Ministry
of Communications and Information Technology,
Government of India, the Centre for Development
of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), is primarily an
R&D institution involved in the design, development
and deployment of electronics and advanced Information
Technology (IT) products and solutions.
In a decade and
a half since its inception, C-DAC has established
its brand image as a premier R & D institution
of national and international repute working in
advanced areas of electronics and information
technology and developing and deploying, advanced
IT products and solutions for important sectors
of economy.
PARAM Padma represents
C-DAC's entry into the select league of supercomputing
nations. This terascale supercomputing system
housed at C-DAC's Terascale Supercomputing Facility
(CTSF) at C-DAC, Bangalore is also the fastest
supercomputer in the country, and ranked 171 in
the Top 500 list of fastest supercomputers in
the world. C-DAC's High Performance Computing
and Communications (HPCC) software on PARAM Padma
effectively addresses the performance and usability
challenges of clusters through a high performance
flexible software environment. It provides low
overhead communication, optimized MPI and a parallel
file system with MPI-IO interface to enable applications
to scale on large number of clusters. C-DAC's
PARAMNet II interconnect switch enables high speed
(1.5 GBPS full duplex) and low latency (less than
10 µsec) communication among large number
of compute nodes of PARAM Padma.
C-DAC's foray
in the area of Supercomputing based Bioinformatics
applications has a manifesto to develop, port
and optimize codes on the PARAM series of Supercomputers,
in the various areas of Bioinformatics like molecular
modeling, sequence analysis, comparative genomics
and microarray data analysis, and to carry out
research in the related areas. C-DAC has interacted
with a number of institutions engaged in this
fast emerging area.
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