About Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC):
- It is the apex research and development wing of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
- It was established in the year 1988.
- Its main purpose was to carry out research and development in Electronics, IT and other associated areas.
- It was setup to build Supercomputers in context of denial of import of Supercomputers by USA.
- C-DAC build India’s first indigenously built supercomputer Param 8000 in 1991.
Param 8000:
- It is India’s first supercomputer.
- It was developed by C-DAC in 1991.
- PARAM 8000 is the first machine in the PARAM supercomputers series built from scratch in 1991.
- All the chips and other elements that were used in making of PARAM were bought from the open domestic market.
- Applications: long-range weather forecasting, remote sensing, drug design and molecular modelling.
