Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: abdutta@icaen.uiowa.edu (jit)
Subject: India Unveils 'Pace-Plus' Parallel Computer
Organization: Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Iowa
Date: 23 Apr 1995 21:10:39 GMT
Message-ID: <3nlil8$i9s@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>

This is from misc.news.southasia.

India Unveils 'Pace-Plus' Parallel Computer

     Hyderabad, Apr 23 (PTI) The Prime Minister  Mr P V
Narasimha Rao, today formally unveiled the Pace-Plus parallel
processing computer, developed by the defence research
development organisation's(DRDO) advanced numerical research
and analysis group(ANURAG) here.
     Speaking on the occassion, Mr Narasimha Rao highlighted
the imporatance of the information technology revolution to
India and complimented the scientists and engineers of ANURAG
for achieving this significant technology success.
     He stressed the importance of self-reliance in advanced
techologies.
      The Pace-Plus fulfils the urgent need in India for
extremely high speed computing of the super computer class. It
was the fastest indigenously developed computer system of its
class in the country.
      Pace-Plus delivers a sustained performance of more than
960 MFlops(million floating point operations per second) for
computational fluid dynamics(CFD) programmes intensively used
in aircraft projects like the Light Combat Aircraft(lca).
      It consists of 32 advanced computing nodes, each with a
memory of 64 mb (expandable to 256) and a very powerful
front-end processor.
     Earlier welcoming the prime minister director of the
ANURAG, Dr K.Neelakantan, traced the origins of DRDO's
interests and efforts in high speed computing.
     He said that a production line has been established for
pace systems and already the installed base in the counrty was
12. Apart from fluid dynamics, the pace system was being used
in the country in many other areas - vision, medical imaging,
signal processing, molecular modelling,  neural networks,
finite element analysis,focussed efforts,he said.
      Pace-Plus could find fruitful applications in many
non-defence areas like geophysics, image processing and
molecular modelling, he added.
      Pace-Plus also comes with a number of user- friendly
tools for software development.
      The manufacturing know-how of the computer has been
transfered to the ultra business machine ltd(UBM),  Bangalore
which is a member of the TVS group. 
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