C-DAC to unveil cluster solution

Addressing a press conference here on Friday,SP Dixit,director,C-DAC,said there is a need to promote the culture of HPC among scientists and future engineers,enabling them to efficiently implement their ideas with the aid of HPC tools and technologies. “It will provide a great opportunity for networking amongst industry experts,professors,faculties,research scholars and students to work in multi disciplinary areas of science and engineering,and to incorporate the latest technologies,” he said.

ONAMA is an integrated package comprising of a well-selected set of parallel as well as serial applications and libraries across various scientific and engineering disciplines such as computer science,mechanical,electronics and communication,electrical,chemical engineering,life sciences,atmospheric sciences etc. Besides,it consists of a number of Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) enabled applications in several domains such as molecular dynamics and physics.

This offering will open a new door to future technocrats,providing them a quantum leap in developing a firm understanding through High Performance Computing in several scientific and engineering domains. It provides the scientists and engineers with the tools that have close affinity with practical simulations,hence making the learning process a lot more applied. Most of the tools and applications are GUI based thereby reducing the learning curve.

Dr PK Sinha,Chief Coordinator,Research and Development,C-DAC said that the most important resource for advancement of any technology area is the manpower resource. “In addition to building HPC systems and solutions,the nation also needs to build HPC manpower for advancement of HPC technologies. ONAMA is an effort in the right direction for building nation’s HPC power. It will enable engineering and science students to develop skills in using parallel processing systems in their respective domains. ONAMA will,therefore,demystify Parallel Computing and HPC technologies at the grass root level and help the nation march ahead at a rapid pace in this important technology area,” he said.

Award for Pradeep Sinha
Pradeep K Sinha,chief coordinator – R&D,C-DAC,has been conferred the recognition of 2009 distinguished engineer by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM),one of the world’s largest educational and scientific computing,society for his contributions to both the practical and theoretical aspects of computing and information technology.

Sinha is one among 17 engineers from across the globe to have been selected for this prestigious recognition.

The 2009 distinguished engineer recognition is part of the ACM Distinguished Member Program. The ACM Distinguished Member program,initiated in 2006,recognizes those members with at least 15 years’ professional experience who have made significant accomplishments in the computing field. He joins a list of eminent scientists.