Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Wednesday, Dec 18, 2002
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Wednesday, Dec 18, 2002 |
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Hardware `Supercomputing needs R&D investment' Our Bureau
BANGALORE, Dec. 17 THE sixth international conference on high performance computing in the APAC region, HPC Asia kicked off here. The four-day event will be a forum for technologists as well as the industry to network. With more powerful microprocessors in the market, high power computing, or supercomputing is moving towards becoming more cost effective and powerful, said Mr R.K. Arora, Director, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC). The market for HPC is expected to grow from the current $0.5 billion to over $1.6 billion in India, he said. CDAC, which was set up in the late eighties with the specific mandate to build an indigenous supercomputer for the country to get around export controls, is now ready to launch a 1 teraflop machine, called Param Padma. ``Today, we need to make another investment in teaching and research in supercomputing, as we did in the eighties," said Prof Govardhan Mehta, Director, IISc. Prof V. S. Ramamurthy, Secretary, Department of Information Technology, defined high performance computing as "something that I cannot have." ``What is high performance at present is not high performance tomorrow,'' he said, adding that the scientific community always wanted more power than technology could provide. The life sciences area is expected to be one of the biggest users of high power computing. According to the IT secretary, Department of Information and Technology, Mr Rajiv Ratna Shah, "an IT-enabled bioinformatics revolution should happen in India. Besides biotech and biocomputing, high computation power would be needed for molecular modelling, nano technology and nano computation, atmospherics and oceanics, climate modelling, weather forecasting, computational fluid dynamics for space science applications, seismic data processing and structural mechanics,'' he said.
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