From: akfs@unity.ncsu.edu (Ashwini NMI Kumar)
Subject: INDIA's achievements.....
Keywords: computers  software
Organization: North Carolina State University Computing Center
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:30:04 GMT

The following is taken from India News Network (without permission!)

Hope it makes you proud of our achievement:

Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 20:15:07 GMT
From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy)
Subject: India Sells Four (PARAM) Supercomputers to Canada and Germany

Source   : PTI

* Four PARAM Supercomputers sold to Canada, Germany and Russia

Panaji - Jan 6: A high performance computer designed and developed by
Pune scientists has propelled India into the club of selected
countries exporting suptercomputing machines, the 30th Indian Science of
Congress was told Wednesday.
        Four of the massively parallel processing computers named
"PARAM" developed at the Center for Development of Advanced Computing
(C-DAC), Pune have been sold abroad, Vijay Bhatkar C-DAC Executive
Director, said. Users in Canada and Germany have bought "PARAM" each
and two were sold to Russia.
        Speaking at a special Congress session on supercomputing
Bhatkar said massively parallel processing computers are the next
generation of super computers based on the new "parallel architecture"
that are increasinlg finding both scientific and business applications.
        Ten other PARAM machines are already in use at various
locations in India performing a range of tasks.
        It developed the PARAM parallel computer with the PARAS
programming environment. Added to that, C-DAC demonstrated the
application feasibility of the PARAM in a range of science and
engineering problems. These include image processing, remote sensing,
computational fluid dynamics, finite element methods, seismic data
processing and so on. The applications were developed jointly by
C-DAC and various user agencies like Space Application Center, VSSC,
R&D, NCST and ONGC. It has been an achievement worth lauding,
especially when one considers the fact that C-DAC got into the act
only in 1988 which was at least a couple of years behind the efforts
of others across the world.
        PARAM, with a peak performance of billion floating point
operations per second (FLOPS) - was developed under a three-year
project that cost Rupees 300 million, Bhatkar said.
        There are only about a dozen companies worldwide which are
offering similar computers. The market is expanding and C-DAC plans to
specially design its machine for exports.
        C-DAC researchers have launched work on basic architecture for
a new machine that will be about a thousand times more powerful which
they hope to have ready by 1997.
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    * US high-tech companies to set up shop in Bangalore

    US high-tech companies - Texas Instruments, Motorola,
Hewlett-Packard,
    Apple, Sun Microsystems, and Intel - have set up shop in Bangalore,
    lured by a high concentration of engineering talent and a more
    free-market oriented reform program of the Indian government. The
    companies' operations there supply a growing demand for computers
and
    software within India and increasingly export technologies overseas.
   (Wall Street Jour. 6)


*** Hope these news make you proud of India *** despite Ayodhya Chaos


ashwini