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Dated December 18, 2002
The Asian Age
India is exploring
the export potential of "PARAM Padma," the
one-teraflop supercomputer, which it has established
at C-DAC's
Terascale Supercomputing Facility in Bangalore.
"We have been
able to set up India's most powerful supercomputer at
$5 million which is half the price of similar computers
being sold in the International market," Shri. R.K. Arora, Executive Director, C-DAC said here.
He was participating
in the Sixth
International Conference on High
Performance Computing in the Asia Pacific Region
being held in Bangalore.
The Pune-based Centre
for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
will be targeting some of the countries, which have
already bought its earlier PARAM
10000 version with a computing power of 100 gigaflops.
C-DAC has already sold about 7 PARAM 10000 supercomputers
with 100-gigaflop memory to eight countries so far,
including Russia, Canada, Singapore and Germany. It
has so far sold over 53 supercomputers, since it started
developing it in the Eighties following a technology
denial regime against the country by the developed world.
C-DAC will be targeting both domestic and international
customers for marketing the Padma supercomputer, which
can be scaled up to 16-teraflops.
PARAM's High Performance
scalable computers can be used for conducting R&D
activities in diverse fields such as bio-informatics,
nano-technologies, atmospheric and oceanic modeling
for weather forecasting, and fluid dynamics for space
applications.
According to Union
Science and Technology department secretary, Shri. V.S.
Ramamurthy, the market for supercomputing will triple
by 2006 to $1.6 billion by 2006 from $0.5 billion currently
in India alone.
"Such a cluster
of supercomputers in eight centers across the country,
including Pune and all the six IITs will be networked
to form the India Information grid (I-Grid) in the run-up
to set up an Asian grid on the lines of the European
grid under construction," Shri. Ramamurthy said.
The department of Science
and Technology will be showcasing its features and advantages
to international customers at the ensuing 90th Indian
Science Congress, being held in Bangalore from January
3-7, 2003.
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