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Dated December 18, 2002
The Times of India: Infotech - Online Edition
At $5 million, India's
soon-to-be launched one teraflop PARAM Padma supercomputer
is half the international price and has a huge potential
for exports to the global market, top government officials
said.
"We are looking
at both (domestic and overseas markets). We do know
that there are countries that need supercomputing power.
We will be in a position to offer them solutions,"
said Shri. Rajeeva Ratna Shah, Secretary, Department
of IT, Union 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, which,
he added, was half the international price.
Shri. Shah, who inaugurated
'High Performance Computing (HPC)
Asia 2002', here last night told reporters that 52 PARAM
series machines were in use now -- 45 in India, four
in Russia and one each in Germany, Canada and Singapore.
Officials said it's
highly likely that Russia would place orders for PARAM
Padma.
"They have all
the other (PARAM)
machines. I don't see any reason why they won't (place
order) do. They are quite loyal to PARAM. We definitely
hope they do that," Shah said.
PARAM
Padma is C-DAC's next generation high performance
scalable computing cluster, currently with a peak computing
power of one Teraflop. Shri. Shah said PARAM Pamda could
be scaled up to 16 teraflops.
He said PARAM Padma
would be launched in the next one month.
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