The Hindu Business Line : CDAC working on new supercomputer

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) is all set to address the needs of the Indian scientific community. The new application areas include disaster management, weather forecasting, bio-informatics and space applications, said Mr S. Ramakrishnan, Director General, CDAC. He said the new supercomputer is being developed at two locations — Bangalore and Pune. The hardware, applications, architecture, testing and benchmarking parameters are being developed at Pune, while the software was being developed at its Bangalore centre.

He also said that unless proper attempts were done, India would not be able to become a place for hardware development. Mr Ramakrishnan said several scientific institutions were now buying their supercomputing platforms from vendors. He noted that there are four supercomputers in the country, including the one at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi. He also said that by end-April this year, the roll out of the high-speed, high-performance computing grid, connecting 17 locations across 45 premier institutes, would be completed. The locations that would be connected include Thiruvananthapuram, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, New Delhi, Mohali, Kanpur, Lucknow, Varanasi, Guwahati, Kharagpur, Kolkata, Roorkee and Allahabad.

He said that the communication backbone would have four layers — fabric network, resources (which included data), middleware (software) and applications.

The fabric network would be completed by end-April and work had already begun on the other three layers, he said. He added that the roll-out map included academic institutions, space applications centres and scientific institutes.

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