Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is an Indian autonomous scientific society, operating under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. History. CDAC was created in November 1987, initially as the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing Technology (C-DACT). In 1988, the US Government refused to sell India a Cray supercomputer due to concerns about India using it to develop nuclear weapons. In response, India started development of its own supercomputer and C-DAC was created as part of this programme. Dr Vijay Bhatkar was hired as the Director of  C-DAC. The project was given an initial run of three years and an initial funding of 30,00,00,000, the cost of a Cray supercomputer. A prototype computer was benchmarked at the 1990 Zurich Super-computing Show: it demonstrated that India had the second most powerful, publicly-demonstrated , supercomputer in the world after the United States. The final result of the effort was the PARAM 8000, released in 1991. It is considered to be India's first supercomputer. The National Centre for Software Technology, Electronic Research and Development Center and CEDTI were merged into C-DAC in 2003. Research activities. Originally  established to research and assemble High Performance Computers, the research of C-DAC now includes: Branches. C-DAC branches and training centers include: Education and training. C-DAC provides several courses in the field of advanced computing and software development. Among these are the HPC certification course- "C-DAC Certified HPC Professional Certification Programme (CCHPCP)". C-DAC organises advanced computing diploma programs through the Advanced Computing Training School (ACTS) located all over India. The PG Diploma courses include C-DAC has also established Centres of Excellence in Information Technology (CEIT) abroad under the Ministry of External Affairs' s development partnership  projects.