C-DAC opens supercomputing facility in Meghalaya

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C-DAC opens supercomputing facility in Meghalaya

The facility aims at conducting research in strategic areas of weather, seismic, bio-informatics, physics, computational fluid dynamics etc

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

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NEW DELHI, INDIA: Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), the premier R&D organization of the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MC&IT), Government of India, inaugurated its new supercomputing facility on Monday.

Prof. M.G.K. Menon, Chancellor, NEHU and one of the most distinguished scientists of India, inaugurated the PARAM Sheersh Supercomputing Facility set up at NEHU and also released the unique product Cure@Home to the people of the NE region, said a press release.

S Ramakrishnan, director general, C-DAC said, "It is a proud moment for C-DAC to deliver two products at the prestigious platform of the Indian Science Congress through the hands of Prof.M.G.K.Menon." He added, "We are equally proud that both the products have been developed specifically for the NE region and we hope that it shall usher in new benefits for the local population. C-DAC has initiated a number of projects specially meant for N.E. region in the last one year."

PARAM Sheersh supercomputing facility is funded by Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, under the North East Sector Projects. The facility aims at conducting research in strategic areas of weather, seismic, bio-informatics, physics, computational fluid dynamics, material sciences, life sciences etc and would serve as a core back-bone platform for students, faculty and researchers of the region to develop competency skills for solving grand challenge problems in the above mentioned areas, the release added.

PARAM Sheersh facility consists of 4 TF peak supercomputing power along with 10 TB High Performance storage scratch space and 24 TB on-line storage, the facility has C-DAC's indigenously designed and developed low latency PARAMNet-3 switch along with NIC, drivers, software etc.

Cure@Home is a decision support system with a knowledge base of integrative (allopathy, ayurveda, homeopathy, yoga) medicine to address the healthcare needs of a common man. It is a health educational tool, which can be deployed on personal computers or at Kiosks, the release added.

It can be used at home, clinics, hospitals, health care centers, public places and schools. Cure@Home educates common man on promotive health and disease prevention.

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