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C-DAC to launch next gen supercomputers
By agencies
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Monday, 15 August 2005, 19:30 IST
HYDERABAD: The Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is working on the next generation of supercomputers, which work on a speed of up to 10 Teraflops as against one Teraflop now.
With such processing speed, the supercomputers will enable weather-monitoring centers to track atmospheric changes better and possibly include tsunami-warning systems. Experts, in turn, can cut short processing speeds and increase the features of data analysis. The center has sewn up plans to further expand the scope of the public-private participatory mode for grid computing, which it has initiated through the Garuda project. The Garuda project, which networks about 50 institutions and agencies across 17 centers, is set for completion later this year.
C-Dac had embarked on the next level of computational processing - - grid computing. From simple parallel processing, this would enable an expert to track information from anywhere at any time, as if it were a single entity, even though these companies or institutions may be spread all over.
Lately, the challenge is not so much of developing new capabilities and higher processing speeds, but of changing the mindset to leverage such computing capabilities. Often, companies are not willing to share information. But with restricted access to information, one can allow limited access and yet take advantage of the grid computers spread in a distributed environment. This project is expected to be completed by the year-end and would have 100 mb per second link and its backbone would be able to support a peak demand of 2.48 Giga bits per second.
With an increasing focus on open source, C-DAC is setting up a national resource center for free/open source. With the support of the Department of Information Technology, the Department of Science and Technology and the Council for Scientific an Industrial Research, and industry players, the effort is directed now to broad basing the concept and spreading technologies developed by C-Dac. While this is at the enterprise level, a lot of effort is directed towards a language interface to popularize the use of computers in local languages.