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Dated December 19, 2002
The Hindu
PARAM Padma the latest
in the series of parallel processing-based High Performance
computers built by Centre for Development of Advanced
Computing (C-DAC),
will be launched shortly at C-DAC's unit here.
Shri. Rajeeva Ratna
Shah, Secretary, Department of IT, Union Ministry of
Communications and Information Technology, has said
that the computer has a peak processing speed of one
teraflop (floating points per second). Shri. Shah was
here for the inauguration of a conference on High Performance
Computing (HPC),
which concludes on Thursday. Shri. Shah said Indian
HPC competence would be used in frontier areas such
as genomics and nanotechnology in addition to traditional
fields such as weather modeling. I-Grid, a network of
eight HPC centers, would be set up during the 10th Plan
for Rs.130 Crore. C-DAC's Pune and Bangalore units would
be the hubs of this network connecting other centres
in the country. Shri. Shah and Shri. V.S. Ramamurthy,
Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, said
a national nanotechnology initiative was being thought
about. Part of this initiative would be setting up one
core center and regional centres of excellence in different
areas of nanotechnology. The HPC would be an enabler
for the initiative, Shri. Shah said.
Other projects where
HPC will play a role include a particle accelerator
in Europe, which will be used by Indian scientists too.
Collider
India had contributed
$50 million to a $ 20-billion project to build a Large
Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, a high-energy research
center at Geneva. The accelerator would boost subatomic
particles to speeds approaching the speed of light to
study their properties. It would be ready by 2005, Shri.
Ramamurthy said. The HPC conference was organized by
C-DAC and the Advanced Computing and Communications
Society.
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