Dated April 29, 2002
Business Line, New Delhi

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is planning to unveil by year-end the next generation PARAM series supercomputers capable of handling more powerful applications.

"We are planning a new system by the year-end which would have new software and hardware capabilities," Shri. R.K. Arora, Executive Director of C-DAC, told PTI here. The system would be "more powerful" and have software that is user-friendly and hardware that can support higher speed, he pointed out.

Shri. Arora said the system would have powerful features which would support applications such as Bioinformatics, Climate Modeling and also Seismic Data Processing for oil exploration.

"It would essentially be the next generation of PARAM series," he said adding the new system was yet to be named. PARAM 10000 is one of the latest and fastest in the series of PARAM range of supercomputers developed by C-DAC.

C-DAC has also recently entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Frontline Technologies Lifesciences Group, Hyderabad, for offering its supercomputing expertise to the latter, he said adding the tie-up involved work on sequencing and genomic data and genetic algorithms.

"We will provide them with software and hardware resources," he added.

The organization had earlier identified the emerging Bioinformatics segment as an area of future growth, and subsequently decided to address three areas of Bioinformatics - sequencing of genome, molecular modeling and genetic algorithms.

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• Dated April 29, 2002
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