What is India's first super computer?
India's First Supercomputer was PARAM 8000. PARAM stood for
Parallel Machine. The computer was developed by the government run
Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in 1991. The
PARAM 8000 was introduced in 1991 with a rating of 1 Gigaflop
(billion floating point operations per second).
All the chips and other elements that were used in making of
PARAM were bought from the open domestic market. The various
components developed and used in the PARAM series were Sun
UltraSPARC II, later IBM POWER 4 processors, Ethernet, and the AIX
Operating System. The major applications of PARAM Supercomputer are
in long-range weather forecasting, remote sensing, drug design and
molecular modelling