Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| National Center for Software Technology | |
|---|---|
|
|
|
| Motto: | The Supercomputing People |
| Established: | 1985 |
| Type: | Public |
| Location: | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India |
| Campus: | Urban |
| Website: | www.cdac.in |
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), is a scientific society of the Department of Information Technology, Government of India. It is involved in Research and Development into the area of software technology.
C-DAC has its head office in Pune & other offices at Mumbai (Juhu, Nariman Point), Navi Mumbai (Kharghar), Mohali (Punjab), and Bangalore (Electronics City and Visvesvaraya Centre),Noida.
Contents |
[edit] History
NCST was established in the year 1988 as the National Laboratory for Research & Development in Software Technology, as a Scientific Society of the Department of Information Technology (formerly, Dept. of Electronics), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (formerly, Ministry of Information Technology), Government of India. NCST was one of the eight nodes of the Education and Research Network project aimed at creating expertise R&D and education in the area of networking and Internet in India.
Electronics Research & Development Centre, India (ER&DCI), National Centre for Software Technology (NCST) and Centre for Electronics Design & Technology, India (CEDTI), Mohali were merged with C-DAC on December 16, 2002.
[edit] Research
The technologies dealt with within the house of C-DAC are Natural Language Processing (NLP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), e-Learning, Multilingual computing, Multimedia computing, Geomatics, Cyber Security, Real Time Systems, Software & Industrial automation, High Performance Computing, Data Warehousing/Data Mining, Digital/Broadband Wireless networks, Modeling and Visualization etc. The sectors addressed are Finance, Healthcare, Power, Steel, Defence, Telecom, Agriculture, Industrial Control, Broadcasting, Education and e-Governance.
In a little over a decade since inception, C-DAC has developed and supplied a range of high performance parallel computers, known as the PARAM series of supercomputers. C-DAC's development activities in this area have been mission oriented and driven by its mission objectives, both in technology and application developments.
Some of the major research areas are:
- System Area Network: HTDG is currently working on products based on the VI Architecture specification. These include high-performance SAN interface cards and high-speed, scalable switches for these SANs.
- Reconfigurable Computing System: Reconfigurable Computing System Cards at C-DAC
- Parallel Programming Environments
- High Performance Communication Subsystems
- High Performance Storage Systems
- Computational Atmospheric Sciences
- Computational Structural Mechanics
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Seismic Data Processing
- Bioinformatics
- Basic Sciences
- Evolutionary Computing
C-DAC has been developing genetic algorithms based methods for protein structure prediction, multiple sequence alignment, multiprocessor scheduling, financial market predictions, high throughput scanning and feature selection, similarity search, IC Engine performance optimization, and so on. These applications formed the basis for identifying Evolutionary Computing as one of the core activities in C-DAC. The Evolutionary Computing Group has recently explored the Ant colony system for protein structure prediction. The group is also looking at the Monte Carlo methods that can assist in modeling real life situations in a much more simpler manner. The group believes that considering the history behind all these kind of techniques, they could be classified into a single category of evolutionary computing akin to pattern evolution, as a method of arriving at the solution
[edit] Activities and Projects
- GARUDA: a nation-wide computational grid that will connect 17 cities across India
- OpenOffice.org: internationalization and localization for languages like Hindi -- for the Windows and Linux platforms.
- NCST manages registration of web domain names that come under '.in' - the top-level domain for India.
- IndiX: A modified X server for rendering Indian Language fonts
- Setu: Allows access to English documents via Hindi queries, using CLIR and MT techniques
- [MaTra]: An English-Hindi Human-Aided Machine Translation System
- Glib: A graphics library
- drishtikaran: A document visualisation system
- Veda: An online testing system
- Vyasa: A generative testing system
- EIDS: Enterprise intrusion detection system, with event correlation capability
[edit] Achievements
- Established the first international Internet gateway into India
- Vartalaap, a Unicode IRC Server
- enabled rendering of Devanagari and other Indian scripts at the OS level in Microsoft Windows 2000/XP.
- N@G : Network at guard, An intrusion detection system
- Awards
[edit] Notable ex-CDACians
- Dr. Vijay P. Bhatkar , Founding Executive Director,
- Dr. Srinivasan Ramani, founder NCST; Director, HP Labs India; Advisor to UN on Information and Communication Technologies
- Prof. Sudhir P. Mudur, co-founder NCST; Professor, Computer Science Dept., Concordia University
- P. Sadanandan, co-founder NCST
- S.D. Shibulal, co-founder Infosys Technologies
- Vijayraman, director Persistent Systems
[edit] See also
C-DAC Thiruvananthapuram C-DAC ATC New delhi
