Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,alt.culture.us.asian-indian,comp.parallel.pvm
From: abdutta@icaen.uiowa.edu (jit)
Subject: Re: India's Supercomputer Put On Sale
Organization: Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 1994 23:21:00 GMT
Message-ID: <3b5mkh$h43@news.icaen.uiowa.edu>

bds@ipp-garching.mpg.de (Bruce Scott TK) wrote:

:In article <3amgkd$4ch@news.icaen.uiowa.edu>, abdutta@icaen.uiowa.edu (jit) writes:
:
:> INDIA DISPLAYS PARAM 9000 IN US
:
: [...]
:
: In addition to the obvious fanfare, does anyone have any technical
: information about this?  How many nodes? What type? Scalable? How are
: data to be passed back and forth? Any benchmark results?

The following is part of a news item posted in misc.news.southasia.
Source: Indian Express, Nov 17, 1994
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[...]

	The Param 9000 joins C-DAC's celebrated Param family which
includes the Param Campus, Param 8000 and the Param 8600 and breaks new
ground in open systems supercomputing. 
	No longer are users constrained by specific processors,
proprietary oparating systems or inflexible architecture. I is an open
frame for flexible supercomputing which encompasses the range from
workstations to parallel computers.
	The core of the Param 9000 open frame architecture is a high
performance self-routing switch. Existing workstations can be
integrated to this switch to realise cluster of workstations or plug in
Param 9000 cpu boards to use them as individual workstations or
configured as a parallel computer, depending on the choice of the user.
	Mr. Vijay Bhatkar, executive director of C-DAC, who unveiled
the supercomputer at a special presentation told "developing a
supercomputer was a top priority because it is a strategic tool for
tomorrow's economic development. It has been our dream to be both
competent and competitive", he said. 
	While declaring that the rising wave of open systems has
smashed the bastion of mainframes, Mr.Bhatkar acknowledged that it is
yet to penetrate the stronghold of supercomputers.
	Mr.Bhatkar said that Param 9000, which sells for anything
between $80,000 and $4 million which Mr.Bhatkar noted is half the price
tag for similar products developed in the West was versatile to the
extent that is range of applications could include the development of
drugs, exploration of oil, air craft design, weather analysis and an
even tracking the depletion of ozone layer.
	According to Mr.Bhatkar, the supercomputer was also envisaged
to be used shortly for stockmarket analysis.
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For further info (straight from the Horse's mouth!) please contact
Dr. Ashok Joshi, Director (Hardware), C-DAC: 

JOSHI@PARCOM.ERNET.IN

Dr. Ashok Joshi, Director (Hardware)
Center for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC)
Pune University Campus, Ganesh Khind
Pune 411 007 India
Tel: +91 212-332461/79/83/84, -332531; Fax: +91 212-337551
Email: JOSHI@PARCOM.ERNET.IN


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