A key government tech research body plans to give access to super
computing research across 200 educational institutes in the country.
Garuda, an initiative by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
(C-DAC) along with National Informatics Centre (NIC) plans to extend
their ‘grid computing initiative’ from the existing 65 institutes to 200
in the next couple of years.
C-DAC’s grid computing initiative is a collection of high performance
computing resources that are spread across different cities and allows
access to super computing research.
Grid computing played a big role in the recent discovery of the ‘God
particle’ as scientists across the world collaborated with each other.
Access to resources such as storage, IT networking and high end servers
that can compute in excess of a trillion calculations per second, used
in areas such as numerical weather simulations or drug discovery are
provided by C-DAC. Due to high costs and maintenance of hardware and
software, educational institutes could not afford to undertake research.
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