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PARAM Padma up for sale at $5 million |
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Dated December 19, 2002
The Economic Times
With the PARAM Padma
supercomputer, capable of performing one trillion floating
point operations per second, ready for use, India is
set to join the teraflops league of nations, which includes
countries like the US and Japan. The supercomputer developed
at the Pune-based Centre for Development of Advanced
Computing (C-DAC)
will be showcased at the 90th Indian Science Congress
to be held in Bangalore from January 1-7, 2003. The
supercomputer will be up for sale as well. The price
tag- $5 million: Nearly half the international price
of other supercomputers. Speaking to Pune Times from
Bangalore C-DAC Executive Director Shri. R.K. Arora said that the PARAM Padma would be made-to-order
as per the client's requirements. Says he, "The
PARAM Padma system will be 10 times more powerful than
the existing PARAM
10000. The system is powered by two latest technology
offerings from C-DAC, the System Area Network (SAN) PARAM
Net II Switch and the enhanced system software tools
for higher efficiency. The computer can be used for
various operations like remote access to life sciences,
Climate Modeling, Seismic Data Processing, Bioinformatics,
DNA matching, Genome Analysis, Space Programming and
even commercial applications."
Says Shri. R.K. Arora, "PARAM Padma's success is more
a personal achievement for the country. It will elevate
the technological status of India. The low-cost in developing
the supercomputer will increase its sale ability."
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