The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is an
Indian
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autonomous scientific society, operating under the
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) is an executive agency of the Union Government of the Republic of India. It was carved out of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology on 19 July 2016 as a standalon ...
.
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:
*
High Performance Computing
High-performance computing (HPC) uses supercomputers and computer clusters to solve advanced computation problems.
Overview
HPC integrates systems administration (including network and security knowledge) and parallel programming into a multi ...
*
Grid Computing
*
Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage ( cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over mu ...
* Multilingual and Heritage Computing
*
VLSI
Very large-scale integration (VLSI) is the process of creating an integrated circuit (IC) by combining millions or billions of MOS transistors onto a single chip. VLSI began in the 1970s when MOS integrated circuit (Metal Oxide Semiconductor) ...
and
Processor design
Processor design is a subfield of computer engineering and electronics engineering (fabrication) that deals with creating a processor, a key component of computer hardware.
The design process involves choosing an instruction set and a certain exec ...
*
Embedded Systems
An embedded system is a computer system—a combination of a computer processor, computer memory, and input/output peripheral devices—that has a dedicated function within a larger mechanical or electronic system. It is ''embedded'' ...
*
Speech and
Natural Language Processing
*
Information and Cyber Security
*
Ubiquitous Computing
Ubiquitous computing (or "ubicomp") is a concept in software engineering, hardware engineering and computer science where computing is made to appear anytime and everywhere. In contrast to desktop computing, ubiquitous computing can occur using ...
*
Bioinformatics
*
Geomatics
Geomatics is defined in the ISO/TC 211 series of standards as the "discipline concerned with the collection, distribution, storage, analysis, processing, presentation of geographic data or geographic information". Under another definition, it ...
*
Digital forensics
Digital forensics (sometimes known as digital forensic science) is a branch of forensic science encompassing the recovery, investigation, examination and analysis of material found in digital devices, often in relation to mobile devices and comp ...
*
Big data analytics
Though used sometimes loosely partly because of a lack of formal definition, the interpretation that seems to best describe Big data is the one associated with large body of information that we could not comprehend when used only in smaller am ...
*
Blockchain
*
Health Informatics
*
Quantum computing
Branches
C-DAC branches and training centers include:
* C-DAC
Pune
Pune (; ; also known as Poona, ( the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million As of 2021, Pune Metropolitan Region is the largest i ...
(Headquarters)
* C-DAC
Mumbai
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' fin ...
* C-DAC
Bangalore
Bangalore (), List of renamed places in India, officially Bengaluru (), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan area, metropolitan population of a ...
* C-DAC
Chennai
Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...
* C-DAC Delhi
* C-DAC
Kolkata
Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...
* C-DAC Patna
* C-DAC Mohali
* C-DAC
Noida
Noida, short for New Okhla Industrial Development Authority, is a planned city located in Gautam Buddha Nagar district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Noida is a satellite city of Delhi and is a part of the National Capital Region (NCR) o ...
* C-DAC Hyderabad
* C-DAC
Thiruvananthapuram
Thiruvananthapuram (; ), also known by its former name Trivandrum (), is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala. It is the most populous city in Kerala with a population of 957,730 as of 2011. The encompassing urban agglomeration populati ...
* C-DAC Silchar
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
* Specialisations in
Embedded System Design,
*
VLSI
Very large-scale integration (VLSI) is the process of creating an integrated circuit (IC) by combining millions or billions of MOS transistors onto a single chip. VLSI began in the 1970s when MOS integrated circuit (Metal Oxide Semiconductor) ...
,
* Big Data Analytics,
*
Geoinformatics
Geoinformatics is the science and the technology which develops and uses information science infrastructure to address the problems of geography, cartography, geosciences and related branches of science and engineering, such as Land Surveying.
...
,
* Artificial Intelligence
C-DAC has also established Centres of Excellence in Information Technology (CEIT) abroad under the
Ministry of External Affairs' s development partnership projects.
Products and developments
*
PARAM
Param may refer to:
* PARAM, a series of Indian supercomputers
* Param (company), a video game developer
* Param, Iran, a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
* Param, Mazandaran, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran
* Param, Chuuk, Microne ...
series of
supercomputers
A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instructions p ...
*
VEGA Microprocessors, India's first indigenous 64-bit Multi-core Superscalar Out-of-Order RISC-V Processor
* M-Kavach 2, an android-based mobile device security solution addressing emerging threats.
*
Mobile Seva
Mobile Seva is an UN award-winning e-governance initiative by government of India. This programme was launched in 2011, by Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India. This programme includes a Mobile Applications Sto ...
AppStore, a
mobile app marketplace
*
Bharat Operating System Solutions
Bharat Operating System Solutions (BOSS GNU/Linux) is an Indian Linux distribution derived from Debian. BOSS Linux was released in four editions:
* BOSS Desktop (for personal use, home and office)
* EduBOSS (for schools and the education commu ...
, a
Linux
Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, w ...
-based general purpose
operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware, software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also i ...
* ''Anvaya'', a workflow environment for automated
genome analysis.
* ''Namescape'', the search engine for the
Aadhaar
Aadhaar ( hi, आधार, ādhār, lit=base, foundation, bn, আধার) is a 12-digit unique identity number that can be obtained voluntarily by the citizens of India and resident foreign nationals who have spent over 182 days in twelve ...
unique-ID project.
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GARUDA
Garuda (Sanskrit: ; Pāli: ; Vedic Sanskrit: गरुळ Garuḷa) is a Hindu demigod and divine creature mentioned in the Hindu, Buddhist and Jain faiths. He is primarily depicted as the mount (''vahana'') of the Hindu god Vishnu. Garuda ...
, India's National Grid Computing Initiative
* TaxoGrid, a
grid-based molecular phylogenetics
Molecular phylogenetics () is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominantly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships. From these analyses, it is possible to ...
and
drug discovery system
* GIST, Graphics and Intelligence based Script Technology
* DARPAN, a
real time network monitoring
Network monitoring is the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing components and that notifies the network administrator (via email, SMS or other alarms) in case of outages or other trouble. Network monitori ...
, visualization and
Service Level Agreement
A service-level agreement (SLA) is a commitment between a service provider and a customer. Particular aspects of the service – quality, availability, responsibilities – are agreed between the service provider and the service user.
...
monitoring tool.
* OLabs, an internet based platform for conduct of school laboratory experiments and assessment.
* ''Punarjjani'', a web based integrated assessment tool for mentally challenged children.
*
Shrutlekhan-Rajbhasha, a
Hindi language
Hindi ( Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been ...
speech recognition
Speech recognition is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enable the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers with the ...
software application
Software is a set of computer programs and associated documentation and data. This is in contrast to hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work.
At the lowest programming level, executable code consists ...
developed by C-DAC in collaboration with
IBM
*''e-Pramaan'', a national e-Authentication framework for accessing various government services.
*QSim, India's first
Quantum Computer Simulator Toolkit in collaboration with
IISc Bengaluru and
IIT Roorkee
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (abbreviated IIT Roorkee) is a technical university located in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. It is the oldest engineering institution in India, and was founded as the College of Civil Engineering in Bri ...
.
Notable researchers and alumnus
*
Vijay P. Bhatkar
Vijay Pandurang Bhatkar PB PS is an Indian computer scientist, IT leader and educationalist. He is best known as the architect of India's national initiative in supercomputing where he led the development of Param supercomputers. He is a P ...
, founding director, recipient of
Padma Bhushan
The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India, preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "distinguished service ...
award
* Rajkumar Buyya, professor at
Melbourne University
The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb no ...
, formerly worked as a Senior Scientist at C-DAC Bangalore
* Srinivasan Ramani, contributed in bringing the internet to India in 1987 through the academic network
ERNET,
served as an adviser on
UN ICT Task Force, and was the first director of
HP Labs, India
* Sudhir P. Mudur, former director of C-DAC, current head of Computer Science Department,
Concordia University.
* T M Vijayaraman, head of
Persistent Systems
Persistent Systems is an Indian multinational technology services company which was incorporated on 16 May 1990. Persistent Systems is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange.
Shares in the company were listed on ...
's research, formerly worked at C-DAC Mumbai.
*
Geetha Manjunath, founder & CEO of NIRAMAI.
[Geetha Manjunath. Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference. Retrieved 24 June 2021, from https://www.widsconference.org/geethamanjunath.html.]
Notable awards and accolades
*
Manthan Award 2013 for Mobile Tele-Ophthalmology Units, e-safeT, ONAMA.
* Manthan Award 2012 for Interactive Museum, Megh Sushrut, National e-Governance Service Delivery Gateway.
*
National Award for the Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, 2012
* Skoch Digital Inclusion Award, 2011
Other projects
*
NDCRTC
*
e-mahashabdkosh
See also
*
Supercomputing in India
References
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Research institutes in Pune
Information technology organisations based in India
1988 establishments in Maharashtra
Research institutes established in 1988