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2.2 C-DAC
C-DAC’s PARAM series of Supercomputers has shown its
competency not only in developing capability in HPC but also
delivering state-of-the-art technology systems in a time bound
manner. For executing the supercomputing plan C-DAC has
established two national supercomputing centres in India: 1)
National PARAM Supercomputing Facility (NPSF) at Pune; 2) C-
DAC’s Terascale Supercomputing Facility (CTSF) at Bangalore.
These facilities provide access to Advance Computing
infrastructure to various R&D organizations, industries and
institutes. C-DAC has developed wide range of indigenous
Hardware and Software HPC solutions viz Hardware accelerator
like Reconfigurable Computing (RC) system, high performance
network interconnection switch PARAMNet-3, GARUDA grid,
Algorithm and solution development in different application
areas, system software and tools development, end-to-end
clientele HPC solutions.
2.2.1 C-DAC in Academia
C-DAC has taken national level initiatives in setting up state-ofart
HPC facility and conducting Workshops, Training programs
and Symposiums for Academic Institutes. C-DAC has started a
certification course “C-DAC Certified HPC Professional
(CCHPCP)” with the primary objective of standardizing HPC
scale to map the HPC skill sets to both current and aspiring
professionals in this domain, such initiative would help in creating
huge pool of skilled HPC work force.
2.2.2 C-DAC National/International level R&D
Collaboration
C-DAC addresses many important areas of national interest
through R&D collaborations. Collaboration with NCMRWF
helped the operational weather forecast cycle on PARAM system,
development of Seismic data processing solutions for ONGC on
PARAM system, providing turnkey consultancy to Bhabha
Atomic Research Centre’s (BARC) fracture analysis code used in
reactor safety analysis. C-DAC is collaborating in mission based
projects with research organization like IITM under National
Monsoon Mission (NMM) through concerted efforts by various
research and academic institutes (both public and private) in India
and abroad, aims to develop/improve the current generation of
dynamical models to improve prediction of Indian monsoon
rainfall. C-DAC provides consultancy for the establishment of
National Agricultural Bioinformatics Grid (NABG) with a view of
increasing the Agricultural yield.
C-DAC’s international collaborations cover technical affiliations,
joint research projects, scientists exchange programs & research
initiatives. C-DAC has setup 50+ PARAM based systems till date
in India and abroad, like in Russia, Singapore, Germany and
Canada. Collaboration with ICAD; Moscow under Indo-Russian
Long Term Program (ILTP) covering use of PARAM
supercomputers, the joint research R&D venture was in the area
of CFD and Climate Modelling. The Russian–Indian centre for
Advanced Computing Research (RICCR) and C-DAC pursue
joint research in the areas of Weather Forecasting, SDP, CFD and
Parallel compiler. C-DAC on behest of MEA, GOI has setup HPC
centres at Vietnam, Tanzania, Armenia and Ghana.
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3. INDIA’S HPC ROADMAP
GOI encouragement in developing the next generation
supercomputer facility during 12th five-year plan period; this will
conform to the advanced computing needs of various Government
organizations, premier R&D labs and educational institutes. The
cloud-based supercomputing network will be categorized into
three different layers. The first layer will have 6-8 centers in
petaflop range. The second layer will have 20 different centers in
200-500 teraflops range. The third layer will have 50-75 centers in
the 1-10 teraflop range. Indian Government is trying to build
Supercomputing R&D platform by the coordinated efforts of HPC
research scientists and the application domain expertise, as it
would assist in development of comprehensive scalable
application software utilizing the HPC systems very efficiently,
many of the projects are been initialized with public and private
collaborations.
C-DAC in collaboration is establishing a HPC Academia
Innovation Centre to enable the open sciences research
community to take advantage of emerging technologies in HPC.
HPC Academic Innovation Centre is first-of-its-kind initiative for
accelerating adoption of HPC as tool in R&D at academic level.
4. CONCLUSION
For India to be second to none in the scientific and engineering
R&D, it must be able to address all the driving forces through
national initiatives and international collaboration. The initiative
taken up by GOI will provide a quantum leap in establishing a
firm HPC infrastructure across the nation. These initiatives for
enhancing the capacity and capability building in HPC will
require a conglomerated effort by both private and public sector
alliances to address critical sectors. In addition to this, R&D
through various international collaborations needs to be realized
to remain abreast with the growing technological trends.
C-DAC is focused on design and deployment of HPC solutions
for premier R&D organizations along with enablement of
advanced computational skills among scientists. Besides, to cater
to the dire need of skilled HPC manpower C-DAC has been
instrumental in proliferation of HPC in educational institutes
through deployment of HPC facilities, conducting training
programs, providing tailored made solutions and conducting HPC
certification course. Today HPC has become an integral part in
the development of products across many industry verticals, such
proliferation will help in bridging the gap between students and
industry professionals.
5. REFERENCES
[1] http://cdac.in/index.aspx?id=about
[2] http://india.gov.in/sector.php
[3] http://www.mea.gov.in/
[4] http://planningcommission.nic.in/
[5] http://top500.org