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Travel Info What is the name of Indias super computer? Travel Tips param padma computer is the super computer of indiaPARAM is a series of supercomputers developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in Pune, India. The latest machine in the series is the PARAM Padma, which reached no. 171 on the TOP500 in 2003. Others include PARAM 10000 and PARAM 9000/SS. The PARAM 10000 was India's first TFLOPS computer. The success of PARAM can be seen as a great example as how restrictions of scientific knowledge turned out to be a blessing in disguise. The USA's supercomputing hardware embargo of India in the early 80s forced the Indian scientists to independently develop the components required for PARAM. The various components used in the PARAM series were Sun UltraSPARC II, later IBM POWER 4 processors , Ethernet , and AIX Operating System. C-DAC has also developed a high performance System Area Network called the PARAMNet-II having transfer speeds of up to 2.5 Gbit/s and latencies as low as 10 microseconds. The major applications of PARAM 10000 are in long-range weather forecasting, remote sensing, drug design and molecular modelling. PARAMs in the future may well be used for India's space programme. Plans to use it for oil and gas exploration are also on the line. Others The PARAM Padma computer was developed by India's Center for Development of Advanced Computer (C-DAC) and promises processing speeds of up to one teraflop per second, a tenfold increase over the country's previous supercomputer, reported Reuters. |
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