Dated April 26, 2002
The New Indian Express

For the first time, India will play host to the 6th International Conference/ Exhibition on High Performance Computing (HPC) in Asia Pacific Region: HPC Asia 2002.

The four-day meet is being organized by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and Advanced Computing and Communications Society (ACS). It will be held from December 16 at Leela Palace, Hotel, in which over 2,000 delegates are expected to take part in it.

The conference is spread over 8,000 sq.ft. of space. ADCOM is the annual International Conference of the Advanced Computing and Communications Society of India.

Talking to newsmen here on Thursday, C-DAC Executive Director and co-Chair National Advisory Committee, Shri. R.K. Arora said. "HPC Asia is held once in every 18 months in Asia Pacific region. This time, it is a joint event of two international conferences: HPC Asia and ADCOM. For the first time India is playing the host. The previous conferences were held at Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, China and Australia."

HPC Asia will emphasize trends in high performance computing and communication technologies, systems and scientific, engineering and commercial applications.

"The objective here is to popularize high performance computing in Asia Pacific region and tackle scientific, engineering and computer application for socio economic growth," he said.

C-DAC Director and Conference Chair, Dr. S.C. Purohit said that this conference is held at a time when the software and electronics exports from India are increasing.

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