India's Bargain Supercomputer

Posted by timothy on Monday December 30, 2002 @07:31PM from the just-weather-predictions dept.

MaximusTheGreat writes "India beat U.S. supercomputer sanctions by building a teraflop $5 million PARAM Padma supercomputer, which is half the price of similar computers being sold in the international market. It can be scaled upto 16 teraflops, on a build-to-order basis For comparison, the fastest supercomputer in the U.S. is about 10 Teraflops. Some techical details and more info on CDAC , ITworld, Economic times and Asia Times. Also, India has been exporting older model PARAM 10000s to other countries like Russia, Canada, Germany etc. for some time, and expects to increase exports significantly with the new model PARAM Padma."

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Emphasizing by omitting... by bo-eric · 2002-12-31 00:26 · Score: 1, Offtopic

PARAM's High Performance scalable computers can be used for conducting R&D activities in diverse fields such as bio-informatics, nano-technologies, atmospheric and oceanic modeling for weather forecasting, and fluid dynamics for space applications.

Do you see one thing sticking out with its absence from that list? Nuclear weapons research? I wonder how Pakistan will respond...

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Imagine a... by MikeLRoy · 2002-12-31 01:06 · Score: 0, Offtopic

beowolf cluster of these!

Sorry, i had to.

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