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Centre for Development of Advanced Computing Corporate PresentationMay 2014C-DAC: Genesis and HistorySetup in 1988 with the mission to build indigenous supercomputing capability.Started building Indian Language Computing technologies solutions in parallel.Subsequently added Education & Training activities to its portfolio.In 2002,ER&DCI (Electronics Research & Development Centre, India),NCST (National Centre for Software Technology) andCEDTI(Centre for Electronics Design and Technology, India) were merged withC-DAC.With this, several new domains got added to C-DACs spectrum of activities such as Professional Electronics, Health Informatics, Cyber Security, Cyber Forensics, e-Governance, etc.

C-DACCentre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is the premier R&D organization of the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Communications & Information Technology (MCIT) for carrying out R&D in IT, Electronics and associated areas

Established in 1988, spread over 11 cities about 3000 employees

Eleven Centres

3Organisation StructureGoverning CouncilTechnical Advisory Committee

Coordination CommitteeNoida

Mohall

Pune

Kolkata

Thiruvananthapuram

Mumbai

Hyderabad New Delhi

Bangalore

Chennai

Management Board

Corporate Office

Director General

F & A CommitteeSilchar

VisionTo emerge as the premier R&D Institution for the design, development and deployment of world class electronic and IT solutions for economic and human advancement.

Thematic AreasHigh Performance Computing and Grid ComputingMultilingual Computing & Heritage ComputingProfessional Electronics, including VLSI and Embedded SystemsSoftware Technologies, including FOSSCyber Security & Cyber ForensicsHealth InformaticsEducation & TrainingHigh Performance Computing (HPC) & Grid ComputingMission:To provide leadership in HPC technologies and promote HPC as a problem solving tool in cutting edge research for Science & Engineering and Grand Challenge Problems.

Evolution of PARAM Supercomputers

1991199419982013PARAM PadmaPower SeriesPARAM 10000Solaris

PARAM 9000IntelGaruda Grid ComputingComputing with participatory approach2005

PARAM YUVAIntel Multi-core2008PARAM 8000TransputerPARAM YUVA IIHybrid Arch

529.74 TF54 TF2002GARUDA1 GF2 GF100 GF1 TF8HPC, Grid & Cloud ComputingC-DAC's PARAM YUVA-II:

Indias fastest and the first supercomputer to cross 500 TeraFlops peak performance

Ranked No. 44 in the Green500 list of World's Supercomputers announced in November 2013. It is the No. 1 system in India and No. 9 in Asia Pacific as per this list

Bio Blaze: an exclusive Supercomputer for Bioinformatics research for better diagnosis of diseases and discovery of new drugs

Meghdoot Cloud Stack: A free and open source cloud stack

9National HPC Facilities

Biocrome System

Biogene

Bioinformatics Resources & Applications Facility (BRAF), Pune

NPSF @ PuneCTSF @ Bangalore

Grid GARUDAConnects geographically distributed HPC Resources of the NationHPC Resources include HPC Systems, Storage, I/O devices, Instruments & sensorsHas more than 70 partners from Academic & Research Institutions spread across more than 25 cities of the countryIndian Grid Certifying Authority: Enables all Indian Grids to be securely connected to other Grids Applications of GARUDA include Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) and Virtual Science LaboratoryMultilingual Computing & Heritage Computing

Mission:Dissolving Language Barriers to place the power of computing and e-contents in the hands of the people of India.

National Rollout Plan: CDs for 22 languages released for Indian Language Tools and TechnologiesMANTRA-Rajbhasha (MAchiNe assisted TRAnslation tool): translates English text into Hindi in a specified domainOCR (Optical Character Recognition) for Indian Languages and OHWR (Online Handwritten Recognition over tablets and smart phonesShruti Drishti: Computer Aided Text-to-Speech and Text-to-Braille System for Visually ImpairedShrutlekhanRajbhasha: Designed to assist various departments and ministries to create quick and effective standard Hindi translations of English documents.Indian Language Keyboard Driver for Android PlatformJATAN: Virtual Museum Builder being used by National Museums Multilingual Computing and Heritage Computing

IDN for .in registry: Enablement of "." top level International Domain for 8 languages viz. Hindi, Marathi, Sindhi, Nepali, Maithili, Bodo, Dogri and KonkaniProfessional Electronics including VLSI & Embedded SystemsMission:Design, development and deployment of globally competitive Professional Electronics products for industrial development and Social Empowerment.

WiTRAC - Wireless Traffic Controller : Vehicle actuated road traffic controller that controls the signal lamps over wireless mediumTARANG: Digital Programmable Hearing Aid and ABC Analyzer: Automatic Bio-Chemistry Analyzer Power Distribution Automation System (PDAS): Reduction of outages, reduction of losses in the system, improved voltage profile and improved safety.ENOVISION Integrated electronic nose (E-Nose) and vision (E-Vision) system for quality monitoring of tea andE-Tongue taste characterization of black teaHazardous Object Removal System: Remotely controlled mobile robotic device to pick an object of suspicion TETRA Technology Baseband Solutions: Adapting TETRA technology for various Applications like disaster management, distress call response management systems and Professional mobile radio applicationsProfessional Electronics including VLSI and Embedded Systems

E-Nose

Tetra Product / TechnologyDigital Programmable Hearing Aid

ABC Analyzer

Software Technologies including FOSSMission:Foster an eco-system for Open Source, Open Standards and Open Systems in India, integrating and benefiting the efforts and needs of all stake holders.

BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solutions): GNU/Linux based operating system with wide Indian language support Mobile Seva: 992 Government Departments/Agencies Integrated NSDG (National e-Governance Service Delivery Gateway): A standards based middleware for achieving secure messaging and interoperability across departmental applicationsInDG (Indian Development Gateway): Through Vikaspedia, facilitates rural development through provision of relevant information, products and services in local languages Online Management and Monitoring System (OMMS): GRIMMS (GIS-enabled Road Information Management and Monitoring System) for PMGSY (Pradhan Manthri Gram Sadak YojanaSoftware Technologies including FOSS

ePSS - Electronic Personal Safety system for women safety

Cyber Security & Cyber ForensicsMission:Continuous research and development in Frontier areas of Cyber Security & Cyber Forensics and thereby achieving self-reliance in the technology; Indigenous development of Hardware and Software tools for Cyber Security and Cyber Forensics.

CyberCheck Suite: Data imaging, recovery, analysis, carving and extraction toolsNetForce Suite: Network session analyser, log analyser and email tracerUSB Pratirodh : End pointUSBmass storage device control solution Malware Resist: Heuristics-based malware detection solutionMalware Nivarak: Application behaviour whitelisting solutionBharatiya AFIS Suite Automated biometric fingerprint identification system Bharatiya IRIS identity solution using irisDARPAN Network Management Solution and Guard Your Network Network Intrusion Detection & Prevention Appliance

Cyber Security and Cyber Forensics

COPS Defender Smart grid and SCADA security

Health InformaticsMission:Effective use of ICT to improve the overall healthcare delivery system for providing better healthcare services to the masses.

MercuryTM: Comprehensive EHR/EMR and Telemedicine Solutione-Sushrut: Hospital Management Information SystemTEJHAS: EMR System for OncologyAyuSoft: Radical Ayurvedic Solutions for Health & Treatment AdviceeSanjeevani: Web based Telemedicine SolutionSANJEEVANI: Mobile Tele Oncology UnitMedical Informatics Software Development Kit for DICOM and Medical informatics Software Development Kit for HL-7

iCare@Home Integrative healthcare informatics solution Health Informatics

MOSQUIT - Disease Surveillance system for Malaria using mobile platform

Education & TrainingMission:To create skilled manpower in the country by providing quality training programmes in the field of Electronics and ICT technologies.

Formal Education ProgrammesCorporate Training ProgrammesInternational Training ProgrammesSkill Development InitiativesTraining Programmes for Women Empowerment, SC/ST students and Minority Community studentsSpecial training programmes for North East statesTechnologies for Education & Training

Focus AreasJoint Research & Development in the areas of Open Source with KACST, Saudi ArabiaEducation & Training with various countries Armenia, Syria, Grenada, Belarus HPC with Vietnam, Russian Academy of Sciences(ICADRAS, Mascow) and Colorado, USABioinformatics with Oregon Health & Science UniversityDigital Preservation with University of British Columbia, CanadaAssociation in EuropeCHAIN-REDS - Grid Computing - European Commission (DG CONNECT)s FP7 project facilitating research groups and even single researchers to access and efficiently use worldwide distributed resources (i.e., computing, storage, data, services, tools, applications)Bioinformatics - Pirbright Institute, UK and University of Surrey, UK International Research Collaboration

TajikistanUzbekistanDominican RepublicGhanaSeychellesMyanmarCambodiaTanzaniaTurkmenistanLesothoBelarusSaudi ArabiaVietnamArmeniaSyriaGrenadaInternational Presence in Education & TrainingUpliftment of North-East Region Mission:To use Electronics, Information & Communication Technologies for the upliftment of North-East region in line with the policy of the Government of India.

Some Initiatives for North-East UpliftmentModel e-Villages in North EastIntelligent Advisory System for farmersFlood Response SystemGlacial Lake Management Information System

IT Based CAD centres at North East StatesElectronic Nose and Vision System for tea industrySpatial Decision Support System for Forest ManagementEarly warning system for dissemination of Scientific data to publicize hazard related information on real time basis

Model e-VillagesRecent Awards

INDIA GEOSPATIAL EXCELLENCE AWARD 2014 C-DAC, Pune was conferred the India Geospatial Award 2014 by India Geospatial Forum at HICC (Hyderabad International Convention Centre), Hyderabad on February 5, 2014.

EFY Awards 2013 C-DAC, ACTS has bagged the EFY Award 2013 as the 'Most Popular Training Institute' for electronics at the EFY awards ceremonyheld at Bengaluru in March, 2014

CSI Nihilent e-Governance Award 2013 C-DAC Noida was awarded the CSI-Nihilent e-Governance award for implementing Megh Sushrut - a cloud based health management information system in Rajasthan

The award was presented on December 14, 2013 at Visakhapatnam by Shri J. Satyanarayana, Secretary (DeitY), Government of India and Professor S.V. Raghavan, National President CSI & Scientific Secretary to Principal Scientific Advisor, Government of India

e-North East Award 2013 C-DAC Kolkata received the e-North East award 2013 for deployment of health care knowledge system in the North-East states for promoting public health awareness and education

SKOCH Smart Governance Award- For MoSQuIT (Mobile based Surveillance Quest using Information Technology) under the category of Smart Governance

- Presented by Mr. Nandan Nilekani, an Indian entrepreneur and the chairman of the UIDAI on September 03, 2013

Manthan Award 2013 Onama of C-DAC, Pune received the award under e-Science and Technology category

Mobile Tele-Ophthalmology Units of C-DAC, Thiruvananthapuram received the award under e-Health category

e-safeT of C-DAC, Noida received the award under e-Science and Technology category

Multilingual Multimedia tool for mitigating code of conduct cases at Election Commission of C-DAC, Noida received the award under E-Inclusion and Localisation category

Disease Surveillance system for Malaria using mobiles of C-DAC Pune received the award under m-Health category Mobile Seva of C-DAC Mumbai received the award under m-Governance category

mBillionth Award South Asia 2013 New InitiativesNational Supercomputing Mission (NSM)To make India one of the world leaders in supercomputing and to enhance Indias capability in solving grand challenge problems of national and global relevanceTo empower our scientists and researchers with state-of-the-art supercomputing facilities and enable them to carry out cutting-edge research in their respective domainsTo avoid redundancies, duplication of efforts, and optimize investments in supercomputingTo attain global competitiveness and ensure self-reliance in the strategic area of supercomputing technology

New initiativesIndia Microprocessor Project (IMP)Study and comparison of different microprocessors available worldwide and evolve specifications of a microprocessor which can be used as a workhorse for strategic Indian applicationsStudy the various issues involved with respect to potential IP violations of existing designsTo prepare a detailed report with effort and resource optimisation for this landmark activity leading to the India MicroprocessorAakash Comprehensive testing of Aakash tablet for functionality, compatibility, environment and enduranceQuality assurance of Aakash for design engineering & manufacturing angleElectronic Personal Safety System (EPSS)Electronic Personal Safety Ecosystem and Device for distressed personsA high-volume hardware consumer product for manufacture by ESDM industry

New initiatives ContinuedMay 7, 2014

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