Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,alt.culture.us.asian-indian,comp.parallel,comp.parallel.pvm
From: anp@geovax.ed.ac.uk
Subject: Re: India's Supercomputer Put On Sale
Organization: University of Edinburgh, Geography Department.
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1994 00:34:00 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Nov21.223625.1@geovax>

In article <3amgkd$4ch@news.icaen.uiowa.edu>, abdutta@icaen.uiowa.edu (jit) writes:
> This is from mics.news.southasia.
> Source: News India-Times, New York, November 19, 1994   
>         Deccan Herald 
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> 
> India's Supercomputer Put On Sale
> 
> India's state-of-the-art supercomputer "Param 9000" was proudly
> showcased for customers at an international exhibition held in
> Washington from November 15 to 17.  The supercomputer cost between
> $800,000 to $4 million  as opposed to the price tag of $10 million 
> for an American made supercomputer.
> 
> INDIA DISPLAYS PARAM 9000 IN US
> India has, for the first time, put on display abroad, its param 9000, 
> parallel supercomupter, and is the only country other than the handful of 
> industrial nations to manufacture such an advanced technology product, 
> UNI reports from Washington.
> The Pune-based Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) 
> yesterday unveiled its param 9000 at "supercomputing 94", an 
> international computer exhibition currently in progress here.
> 
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Cool, does it do any word processing?




