C-DAC
is India's national initiative in Advanced Computing with
a mission to deliver state-of-the-art, open architecture,
scalable high performance computers in the desktop to
teraflop range, embodying the emergent industry-standard
building blocks. Towards fulfillment of this goal, C-DAC
has advented the OpenFrame
Architecture which has been realized in its celebrated
PARAM series of High Performance Computers. PARAM Padma
at C-DAC's Tera-Scale Supercomputing Facility (CTSF) is
a result of its third mission project in High Performance
Computing Technology and Applications.
While the need and usefulness of high performance supercomputing in Business as well as Scientific & Engineering Applications is unquestioned and is growing rapidly, it is not economically viable and justified to have many such facilities.
Recognizing such a need, C-DAC had earlier set up National PARAM Supercomputing Facility (NPSF) at Pune, housing its earlier generation PARAM 10000, a 100 Gflop peak computing power system.