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Dated December 18, 2002
Business Standard
IDC says supercomputer
mart will triple to $1.6 billion by 2006
Indian scientists expect
their latest showpiece, the PARAM Padma supercomputer,
to get a major share in the global market which is expected
to triple to $1.6 billion by 2006.
Quoting an International
Data Corporation (IDC) study, Union Science and Technology
Secretary Shri. V.S. Ramamurthy told an international
conference that the market for supercomputers will triple
by 2006 to $1.6 billion by 2006 from $0.5 billion currently.
Padma is also the cheapest
supercomputer available in the world at $5 million,
which is half the cost of other similar supercomputers.
Padma supercomputer
with one-terra floating operation point per second (FLOP)
memory is the fastest supercomputer produced by Centre
for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC).
India has already sold seven PARAM
10000 supercomputers with 100 gigaflop memory abroad.
These include four
to Russia and one each to Germany, Canada and Singapore.
Padma is expected to be inaugurated in late December.
The Padma supercomputer will also be showcased at the
90th Indian Science Congress, which is being held in
Bangalore between January 1 and January 7, 2003.
Ramamurthy said the
Indian Information grid (I-grid) which allows anyone
to access computing power, should not be confined to
India alone but to the Asian grid as well.
In India, about 45
leading research and development centers academic institutions
have already installed a series of PARAM's High Performance
scalable computers for conducting R&D activities in Bioinformatics,
nanotechnologies, atmospheric and oceanic modeling for
weather forecasting, and fluid dynamics for space applications.
Union Communications
and IT Secretary, Shri. Rajeeva Ratna Shah said the
Centre plans set up a to core facility for nanotechnology
which will focus on nano-electronics, nano-informatics
and nano-sciences.
Shah said that C-DAC which is organizing the conference, has also been restructured.
C-DAC now has two major divisions with one engaged in
Research and Development activities and the other engaged
in high-end manpower development requirements in the
area of computing.
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