Centre for Development of Advanced Computing

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National Center for Software Technology

Motto:	The Supercomputing People
Established:	1985
Type:	Public
Location:	Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Campus:	Urban
Website:	www.cdac.in

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), is a scientific society of the Department of Information Technology, Government of India. It is involved in Research and Development into the area of software technology.

C-DAC has its head office in Pune & other offices at Mumbai (Juhu, Nariman Point), Navi Mumbai (Kharghar), Mohali (Punjab), and Bangalore (Electronics City and Visvesvaraya Centre),Noida.

1 History
2 Research
3 Activities and Projects
4 Achievements
5 Notable ex-CDACians
6 See also
7 External links

[edit] History

NCST was established in the year 1988 as the National Laboratory for Research & Development in Software Technology, as a Scientific Society of the Department of Information Technology (formerly, Dept. of Electronics), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (formerly, Ministry of Information Technology), Government of India. NCST was one of the eight nodes of the Education and Research Network project aimed at creating expertise R&D and education in the area of networking and Internet in India.

Electronics Research & Development Centre, India (ER&DCI), National Centre for Software Technology (NCST) and Centre for Electronics Design & Technology, India (CEDTI), Mohali were merged with C-DAC on December 16, 2002.

[edit] Research

The technologies dealt with within the house of C-DAC are Natural Language Processing (NLP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), e-Learning, Multilingual computing, Multimedia computing, Geomatics, Cyber Security, Real Time Systems, Software & Industrial automation, High Performance Computing, Data Warehousing/Data Mining, Digital/Broadband Wireless networks, Modeling and Visualization etc. The sectors addressed are Finance, Healthcare, Power, Steel, Defence, Telecom, Agriculture, Industrial Control, Broadcasting, Education and e-Governance.

In a little over a decade since inception, C-DAC has developed and supplied a range of high performance parallel computers, known as the PARAM series of supercomputers. C-DAC's development activities in this area have been mission oriented and driven by its mission objectives, both in technology and application developments.

Some of the major research areas are:

System Area Network: HTDG is currently working on products based on the VI Architecture specification. These include high-performance SAN interface cards and high-speed, scalable switches for these SANs.
Reconfigurable Computing System: Reconfigurable Computing System Cards at C-DAC
Parallel Programming Environments
High Performance Communication Subsystems
High Performance Storage Systems
Computational Atmospheric Sciences
Computational Structural Mechanics
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Seismic Data Processing
Bioinformatics
Basic Sciences
Evolutionary Computing

C-DAC has been developing genetic algorithms based methods for protein structure prediction, multiple sequence alignment, multiprocessor scheduling, financial market predictions, high throughput scanning and feature selection, similarity search, IC Engine performance optimization, and so on. These applications formed the basis for identifying Evolutionary Computing as one of the core activities in C-DAC. The Evolutionary Computing Group has recently explored the Ant colony system for protein structure prediction. The group is also looking at the Monte Carlo methods that can assist in modeling real life situations in a much more simpler manner. The group believes that considering the history behind all these kind of techniques, they could be classified into a single category of evolutionary computing akin to pattern evolution, as a method of arriving at the solution

[edit] Activities and Projects

GARUDA: a nation-wide computational grid that will connect 17 cities across India
OpenOffice.org: internationalization and localization for languages like Hindi -- for the Windows and Linux platforms.
NCST manages registration of web domain names that come under '.in' - the top-level domain for India.
IndiX: A modified X server for rendering Indian Language fonts
Setu: Allows access to English documents via Hindi queries, using CLIR and MT techniques
[MaTra]: An English-Hindi Human-Aided Machine Translation System
Glib: A graphics library
drishtikaran: A document visualisation system
Veda: An online testing system
Vyasa: A generative testing system
EIDS: Enterprise intrusion detection system, with event correlation capability

[edit] Achievements

Established the first international Internet gateway into India
Vartalaap, a Unicode IRC Server
enabled rendering of Devanagari and other Indian scripts at the OS level in Microsoft Windows 2000/XP.
N@G : Network at guard, An intrusion detection system
Awards

[edit] Notable ex-CDACians

Dr. Vijay P. Bhatkar , Founding Executive Director,
Dr. Srinivasan Ramani, founder NCST; Director, HP Labs India; Advisor to UN on Information and Communication Technologies
Prof. Sudhir P. Mudur, co-founder NCST; Professor, Computer Science Dept., Concordia University
P. Sadanandan, co-founder NCST
S.D. Shibulal, co-founder Infosys Technologies
Vijayraman, director Persistent Systems