Russian Academy of Science buys Indian Param supercomputerNew Delhi 14 August 2000 The Indian Center for Development of Advanced Computing has sold its third Param 110 Gflop/s supercomputer to the Russian Academy of Science's Institute for Computer Aided Design supporting scientific applications such as fluid dynamics, image processing and climate modelling.
"We have just completed the deployment of our third supercomputer, the Param
10000 version, in Russia. The supercomputer will be used for scientific applications including fluid dynamics and environment monitoring," RK Arora, executive director of government's Research and development unit, Center for Development
of Advanced Computing (CDAC) said.
The latest supercomputer was sold to Russian Academy of Science's Institute for
Computer Aided Design for about Rs20 million (euro 450,000).
The order for sale of the 16 processor Param series of supercomputer had been
made by Russia in December last year under a commercial contract, he added.
Pune-based CDAC developer of Param series of supercomputers has already sold two
such application intensive machines to Russia and Singapore.
CDAC, which recently launched the Param Anant range of cost effective
supercomputers, has also chalked out a new marketing strategy to sell the
machines in India.
Param-10000 cost the Russian side a third or a quarter of its actual price. Half
of the cost of the project for the supply of the computer has been repaid by
Russian scientists' contribution to the creation of high-tech products for the
Indian centre for designing computer systems. The order for sale of the 16 processor Param series of supercomputer had been
made by Russia in December last year under a commercial contract, he added.
Pune-based CDAC developer of Param series of supercomputers has already sold two
such application intensive machines to Russia and Singapore.
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