Feb 25, 1999

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune announces the opening of its Hyderabad Centre. This Centre has been established to participate more effectively in the ongoing Information Technology revolution in the State of Andhra Pradesh, integrating C-DAC’s pioneering efforts in the areas of advanced computer education, high performance computing and Indian language computing solutions.

C-DAC – Hyderabad has been initially started with the Advanced Computer Training School (ACTS) with an enrollment of 70 students from various parts of the country. C-DAC also has planned to take-up the projects involving the use of its PARAM 10000 and GIST technology for offering IT based solutions in the near future in the region. Already, C-DAC is executing a project on multipurpose household data using Data warehousing technique to build decision support system for use by State Government level functionaries.

Shri. R.K. Arora, Executive Director of C-DAC, on the opening day of the Centre stated that, "this Centre is an effort to fulfill a long felt need in the region for imparting quality education in advanced areas of IT, and would strive to diffuse the many possible applications of its information technologies in various sectors of economy, which the state is already carrying out."

C-DAC, established in 1988 as a society under the Department of Electronics (DoE), Government of India, is the pioneer in the development of indigenous PARAM series of Supercomputers and the Indian language script technology - GIST. With the mission of taking its indigenously developed technologies to benefit the masses in the country and gear-up to meet the technological challenges of next millennium, C-DAC is expanding its horizons, and the opening of the Hyderabad Centre is another step towards it.