The Hindu Business Line : C-DAC working on next gen supercomputers

THE Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is working on the next generation of supercomputers, which work on a speed of up to 10 Teraflops as aginst one Teraflop now.

With such processing speed, the supercomputers will enable weather-monitoring centres to track atmospheric changes better and possibly include tsunami warning systems.

Experts, in turn, can cut short processing speeds and increase the features of data analysis.

The centre has sewn up plans to further expand the scope of the public-private participatory mode for grid computing, which it has initiated through the Garuda project.

The Garuda project, which networks about 50 institutions and agencies across 17 centres, is set for completion later this year.

The Director General of C-DAC, Mr S. Ramakrishnan, told Business Line, that C-Dac had embarked on the next level of computational processing - - grid computing.

From simple parallel processing, this would enable an expert to track information from anywhere at any time, as if it were a single entity, even though these companies or institutions may be spread all over.

Lately, the challenge is not so much of developing new capabilities and higher processing speeds, but of changing the mindset to leverage such computing capabilities.

Often, companies are not willing to share information.

But with restricted access to information, one can allow limited access and yet take advantage of the grid computers spread in a distributed environment.

This project is expected to be completed by the year-end and would have 100 mb per second link and its backbone would be able to support a peak demand of 2.48 Giga bits per second.

Referring to the next generation of supercomputing, Mr Ramakrishnan said, "From the current one Teraflop, we expect to reach 10 Teraflops by the end of this fiscal. Globally, experts expect to achieve the task of having a 1,000 Teraflop computer or one Petaflop by either 2008-2010. C-DAC's quest is to keep pace with this development."

A centre for open source

With an increasing focus on open source, C-DAC is setting up a national resource centre for free/open source, Mr Ramakrishnan said.

With the support of the Department of Information Technology, the Department of Science and Technology and the Council for Scientific an Industrial Research, and industry players, the effort is directed now to broadbasing the concept and spreading technologies developed by C-Dac.

While this is at the enterprise level, a lot of effort is directed towards a language interface to popularise the use of computers in local languages.

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