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July 10, 2009

C-DAC Ships PARAM Supercomputer to Tanzania, Launches New Training Program

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PUNE, July 10 -- As part of its capacity building initiatives, C-DAC has recently shipped the PARAM Supercomputing cluster to Tanzania. The deployment is part of a MOU signed between the Government of India and, the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania.

The project is sponsored by the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India through Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India. Valued at Rupees 3.74 crores, this system shall be deployed at Dar-Es-Salaam Institute of Technology, Tanzania.

The PARAM supercomputing cluster consists of indigenously developed PARAMNet III interconnect, software stacks, CHReME HPC portal, system software and tools along with storage. Additionally, system administration and application porting & parallelization, training on HPC tools shall be provided. The system would cater to various applications in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Weather Forecasting, Bioinformatics, Finite Element Analysis, Ocean Modeling Seismic and Materials Modeling.

The project shall be for duration of three years wherein various exchange programs for scientists would be facilitated along with interactive workshops.

Addressing the media, Shri Rajan Joseph, Director General, C-DAC, said "the PARAM Supercomputing Facility shall be used extensively for Scientific and Research Applications programmes in addition to being a National Data Centre".

"The facility shall support Government of Tanzania by way of capacity building in the areas of High Performance Computing and Applications", added Shri S. P. Dixit, director of C-DAC, Pune.

"We are in the final stage of discussions with various other countries for establishing similar facilities", said Shri. Goldi Misra, Group Coordinator & Head of the HPC Solutions Group, which is implementing this project.

Earlier, the PARAM supercomputing clusters have been deployed in Russia, Singapore and Ghana.

Looking at the need of skilled professionals in the current healthcare industry, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) under the aegis of its Advanced Computing Training School (ACTS) has launched a new course on Healthcare Informatics. This course targets individuals and professionals who wish to build their career in the Healthcare Informatics domain. The first batch of this course will commence from August 2009. The Common Entrance Test and interviews for this batch will be conducted in July 2009.

The Postgraduate Diploma in Healthcare Informatics (PGDHI) is a 24 weeks full time program targeted towards grooming students and professionals in the area of Healthcare Informatics. Commenting on the launch, Shri Rajan T Joseph, Director General, C-DAC said, "the current economic scenario has made it imperative for today's IT professionals to augment their skillsets beyond technology and venture into domain specialization to stay relevant in this dynamic environment. Specialists who can bring both domain knowledge and technology to the table will have a clear advantage in the market. Despite the downturn, the healthcare industry is witnessing a demand for healthcare informatics professionals as technology is beginning to play an important role in healthcare delivery. I am confident that the PGDHI will be successful in meeting the demands of this industry".

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