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While it seems to have involved an entire team, many sources in India credit the actual invention of India's first supercomputer to Dr. Vijay Pandurang Bhatkar, an engineer and computer scientist. He developed the PARAM 8000 (the word Param is Sanskrit for "supreme" or "superior") in 1991.
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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
Where the super computer of India PARAM is placed?
The first Indian Super Computer PARAM 10000devloped by CDAC India is currently situated at PUNE Indiaand is used in atomic research and astronautical research.
List of supercomputer made in India?
One super computer - made in India - is called PARAM. It is developped by the CENTER OF DEVELOPEMENT OF ADVANCED COMPUTING. Website : http://www.cdac.in Another super computer - made in India - is called cluster-computer "Kabru". It is made by the INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES. Website : http://www.imsc.res.in
What happened to the inventor after the computer was introduced?
He was sacked and replaced by a computer.
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