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CDAC to launch new supercomputer

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BANGALORE: The Center for Advance Computing (CDAC) is all set to launch its first one teraflop supercomputer in Pune for providing high-speed connectivity to public and private sector companies, and the R&D centers across the country.



Announcing this in Bangalore, the Union IT Secretary Mr. Rajeev Ratna Shah said that this supercomputer, to be launched on December 16, would be linked to the proposed 10 terra flop Information grid (I-grid) to be set by the Union Ministry of IT Typically, a one-teraflop computer can process one trillion (1012) floating-point instructions per second.



The proposed I-grid will be located across 10 cities at an investment of Rs 130 crores. It will connect the seven IITs and IISc in Bangalore. The I-grid would enable high speed processing of computer memories and software in parallel processes to aid environmental modeling, analysis of satellite images, fluid dynamics, space, bio-informatics and bio-computing, advanced chip design and simulation of heavy-duty equipment like turbines.



Speaking at the TieCon (The Indus Entrepreneurs from the Silicon Valley of the US conference) at IT.com 2002, Shah said that India should start looking beyond services if it wanted to be considered as an IT superpower.



" We should expand our focus and look at emerging areas like VLSI design, embedded software systems, bio-informatics, bio-computing, nano-informatics and nano-computing," he said.



C-DAC has built four versions of its Param series of supercomputing machines, as it moves up to catch up with global leaders such as the United States, Japan, Israel and China.



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