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C-DAC to network premier education institutions

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PUNE: The Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) has undertaken

an ambitious Rs 7.2 crore project with 12 premier academic institutions in the

country to promote panel processing technology and developing applications in

the area of super computing.

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This is probably the first project of its kind in the country to network

human resources and build synergy between C-DAC and academic institutions. More

importantly, this will also provide manpower to build applications in the area

of high end computing, C-DAC executive director R K Arora, stated here today.

Arora was speaking at a review workshop for PARAM 10000 installation and

usage at premier institutes that was held at C-DAC this afternoon The project

has been undertaken in association with the Ministry of Information Technology.

Arora explained the of the project said that this would help them to focus on

certain areas of technology. As part of the project, C-DAC has installed PARAM

10000 at 12 academic institutes in the country. These include BITS Pilani, BIT

Ranchi, IISc Bangalore, IIT Guwahati, MNERC Allahabad, University of Roorkee,

IIT Mumbai, IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Chennai, KREC Surathkal. The installation

at IIT Kharagpur will take place in the first week of August. So far projects

have been identified at 11 institutes. The institutes will work in the areas of

computational fluid dynamics, weather forecasting, molecular modeling,

structural mechanics, seismic data processing, genetic algorithm and

unstructured grid generation. Arora said that similar projects have been

attempted in the US and hoped that this would enable researchers in the country

to use the supercomputing facility for large-scale applications.

Eminent scientist of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Prof V Rajaraman

who spoke on high performance computing at the valedictory session of the review

workshop emphasized the need to establish a grid for networking computers. He

projected a vision where people could sell their CPU power to build up computing

power. With these 12 centers coming up, it is important to see if these centers

can be networked. He spoke extensively on `Parallel Computing -

Past-Present-Future', predicting that the future would see the formation of a

massive communal database and data repository which is vital for HPC. Prof

Rajaraman said that supercomputers would no longer remain a mystery and could be

easily built off the shelf in the near future.

University of Pune vice chancellor Prof. A V Kolaskar, who spoke on `Bioinformatics'

said that a center of modeling and simulation would soon come up on the Pune

university campus besides an institute for biotechnology and bioinformatics.

"The C-DAC initiative is very important to us since this would solve a

number of problems,'' he said. There is no dearth of manpower in the country.

What is important is how to network the human resources, he added.

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