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PARAM Padma has huge export potential: IT Secretary |
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Dated December 18, 2002
Financial Express
At $5 million, India's
soon-to-be launched one-teraflop PARAM Padma supercomputer
is half the International price and has huge potential
for exports, top government officials have said. "We
are looking at both (domestic and overseas markets).
We do know that there are countries who need supercomputing
power. We will be in a position to offer them solutions,"
said Shri. Rajeeva Ratna Shah, Secretary, Department
of IT, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. Shri. R.K. Arora, Executive Director of Centre for Development
of Advanced Computing
(C-DAC),
which developed the supercomputer, said PARAM Padma
was priced $5 million for the overseas market. Mr. Shah,
who inaugurated 'High
Performance Computing (HPC) HPC
Asia 2002', here on Monday said 52 PARAM series
machines were in use now - 45 in India, four in Russia
and one each in Germany, Canada and Singapore. The government
is planning to corporatize Centre for Development of
Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
and is now refocusing the work being done in various
societies under the department of information technology
(DIT), Shri. Shah added.
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