Russia and India to jointly develop applications for PARAM-1000 supercomputer

New Delhi 07 Dec 99 India and Russia Tuesday inked two agreements to jointly develop application software based on Indian PARAM-10000 supercomputer and to forge a joint venture for manufacturing silicon wafers and devices used by the semiconductor and electronics industry.

The agreements were signed here at the concluding session of the ninth meeting of Integrated Long Term Development Program ( ILTP) in science and technology between India and Russia Tuesday.

Russia will procure a robust version of PARAM-10000 and set up an Indo-Russian computing center at Moscow for the purpose, Co- Chairman of the ILTP joint council C. N. R. Rao said Tuesday. India will share hardware costs of the center.

He said that India planned to procure silicon crystals from the Center for Advanced Materials and Machines in Siberia and manufacture silicon wafers and devices at the Central Electronics Ltd at Sahibabad in Uttar Pradesh, which would be marketed in both countries.

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in Pune, west India's Maharashtra state, which built PARAM-10000, will supply the supercomputer to Moscow-based Institute of Computer Aided Design (ICAD).

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