C-DAC: Press Kit - Archives(Press Releases) - C-DAC to install PARAM 10000 at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), here today to install the PARAM 10000 - the most powerful supercomputer ever made in India - at Supercomputing Education and Research Centre, IISc, Bangalore.

According to the MoU, C-DAC will install PARAM 10000 system at IISc campus in Bangalore initially and later with an access facility to the National PARAM Supercomputing Facility (NPSF) at Pune to facilitate students and researchers of IISc in the software development projects on various science and engineering applications of national interest using PARAM 10000. Along with the system C-DAC will also provide system software, software tools and requisite training to operate and use PARAM 10000.

In its efforts to promote the use of parallel processing technology and nurture and build the high-end man power for such technologies, the Department of Electronics (DoE), Government of India, decided to provide 12 PARAM 10000 supercomputers to the selected premier academic institutions including the six Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), select regional Engineering Colleges, and other premier academic institutions. Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore is among the first Institutes to receive this system and induct it into its educational research and development activities.

C-DAC has been developing various computer intensive applications using its PARAM series of computers. To name few important applications, the critical ones are Weather Forecasting, Seismic Data Processing and applications related to Space. Other scientific applications in Physics, Chemistry, Biotechnology, and business applications in Banking, Financial Modeling, Insurance, Telecom and Electronic Governance have been also developed.

Since the launch of PARAM 10000, C-DAC has been also concentrating on the usage of such high-end technology in the Education Sector, to address the important need of generating high-end man power in the next millennium, and to enable work on the on the nationally important projects. In this back ground C-DAC has already installed the PARAM 10000 based technology in Amrita Institute of Technology, Coimbatore. Usage of this high-end technology by Indian educational Institutes will help provide experienced manpower in the cutting-edge technology to work for industry and the national institutions in the near future.

Shri. R.K. Arora, Executive Director, C-DAC, said, "C-DAC views this program as one of developing greater synergy between its own efforts of building application software and those of pioneer education and research centres such as IISc, in the country to address mission critical applications."

"C-DAC's earlier association with IISc will further be strengthened by this DoE initiative which according to the Secretary of DoE is an - Investment towards the Nation Building," he added further.

Prof. N. Chandrasekaran, Director, C-DAC, said, "Bangalore Team apart from developing several HPCC tools is also engaged in developing Web based applications using PARAM as an advanced application server. Several Electronic business, Electronic governance and Digital Library applications using cutting edge technology tools are being developed at Bangalore. In all of these efforts, C-DAC looks for a long lasting partnership with Indian Institute of Science".

IISc
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore is one of the premier education institutions in the country engaged in variety of activities ranging from education to scientific and technological research and consultancy. It has strong groups in the areas of Aeronautics, Structural Mechanics, Metallurgy, and Computer Science as well as in basic sciences like Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Earth Sciences. The Institute has been participating in all the major initiatives of the Country.

C-DAC
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is India's national initiative in High Performance Computing and has been engaged in Research & Development and high-end solutions based on high-end computing. After completion of two successful missions, C-DAC is now engaged in developing next generation high performance computing and communication technologies and application covering system software and parallel programming tools, specific libraries and multi disciplinary applications. In this endeavor C-DAC is also implementing major scalable end-user specific applications in the areas like Computational Fluid Dynamics, Finite Element Methods, Image Processing, Atmospheric Sciences, Seismic Data Processing and Business Applications including huge amount of data.