From: gnreddy@dpg1.attmail.com (G.Narotham Reddy)
Newsgroups: misc.news.southasia
Subject: India Drops The Idea Of Buying Cray Supercomputer
Date: 27 Jan 93 01:27:51 GMT
Organization: AT&T


Source   : Dataquest, Jan 1993
Country  : India
 
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* No Cray for IISc, Param parallel processor to be used instead

The Indian Government has dropped the idea of purchasing a Cray super-
computer for the Indian Institute of Science(IISc). An alternate plan
of action has been approved to help meet the demands of computing
power for the institution.
	According to IISc Director C.N.R Rao, the Government has approved
a different configuration for the institute. "We will not have a Cray
YMP as originally planned. The alternate plan comprises a network of
computers connected to 150 workstations all over the campus," he says.
	Discussions on the purchase of a Cray-YMP supercomputer had been
going on since the inauguration of the national supercomputing
facility in 1984.
	The hardware for the network will now consist of machines from IBM,
the Param 'parallel processor' from C-DAC and the 'floserver'
developed jointly by the National Aeronautics Laboratory and Wipro
Infotech.
	Once operational, the network will be linked to other academic
institutions such as the IITs through satellite.

* Kasbah bags Intel contract 

Kasbah systems software of Madras recently acquired an offshore
contract from Intel corp of the US to develop PrdSak seismic signal
processing library routines. The test programs are to be directly
ported on to a Supercomputer. It includes image processing, signal
processing and integration interpolation routines.

* I-Net connections in two phases to another 89 cities soon

I-Net is being introduced in two phases, The first phase is operational
in eight cities which include Delhi, Bombay, Madras, Calcutta,
Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune and Ahmedabad.
	The second phase is expected to be operational by 1993 and will
cover 89 cities all over the country, these include:
Agra, Allahabad, Amritsar, Bhopal, Bhubaneshwwar, Baroda, Calicut,
Chandigarh, Cochin , Coimbatore, Erode, Guwahati, Indore, Jabalpur,
Jallandhur, Karnal, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Madurai, Mangalore, Mysore,
Nagpur, Rajkot, Ranchi, Salem, Srinager, Surat, Trichy, Trivandrum,
Ujjain, Varanasi, Vijayawada, Vishakapatnam, Aligarh, Ahmadnager,
Ajmer, Ambala, Belgaum, Bhavnager, Bikaner, Cuttack, Darjeeling,
Dhanbad, Dehradun, Durgrapur, Gorakhpur, Gwalior, Guntur, Hubli,
Imphal,Jamnager, Jammu, Jamshedpur, Jodhpur, Kakinada, Dolhapur, Kota,
Mathura, Meerut, Muzzafarpur, Moradabad, NAsik, Oooty, Palghat,
Panjim, Pathankot, Patiala, Patna, Pondicherry, Quilon, Raipur,
Rourkela, Sambalpur, Shiilong, Sholapur, Simla, Tirunelveli, Trichur
and Udaipur.

- What I-Net Can do

I-Net has various advantages over other modes of data transfer:

* It can be used to provide a country wide MIS for any corporate
  organization.

* I-Net is the least expensive mode of data exchange within the
  country and abroad. The charges are independent of distance and cost
  same all over the country. In a typical call, within the country, a
  subscriber is charged 5 (five) paise per line of information during
  day time and 2.5 paise during the night towards volume charge. In
  addition, he will have to pay a duration charge @ Rs 1 per minute of
  the call. These charges are independent of the locations of calling
  and called subscribers.

* It is connected to various data networks in other countries.
	
It is also connected to RABMN. So subscribers from either network have
complete inter-connectivity.

Its other facilities include closed use group, fast select and reverse
charging. Subscribers can also create secure private data networks
within I-Net.

Subscribers will soon be able to call terminals connected to a Public
Switched Telephone Network - out dialing facility. A 64 kbps X.25,
frame relay are on the anvil.
                      
* It offers fast call set-up which is suitable for applications such
  as credit card verification.

* Those with X.28 dial-up connections can not talk to each other. This
  gives I-Net the dubious distinction of being the only network in the
  world which does not allow direct communication to those with X.28
  connections.

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