How will a supercomputer benefit you? Not directly, because its awesome hardware is for number-crunching. But the right software can alter the man-machine interface in small, imperceptible ways. Here's how:
How will a supercomputer benefit you? Not directly, because its awesome hardware is for number-crunching. But the right software can alter the man-machine interface in small, imperceptible ways. Here's how:
WEATHER FORECAST: A 10-day forecast model can be run in 4 minutes 50 seconds on PARAM 10000; it takes 15 minutes on the ageing American super computer, Cray XMP.
SATELLITE LAUNCH: PARAM 10000 can simulate launches in 35 minutes; it take 80 hours over seven days on dated the IBM machines that ISRO now banks on.
OIL EXPLORATION: Tapes carrying data are physically ferried by trucks to Dehradun; it takes weeks to read them. PARAM 10000 can cut the redtape by weeks.
NETWORKING: Pune and Bombay-ites can vote, register vehicles, pay insurance, call police, pay phone bills sitting at home.
MOLECULAR MODELLING: PARAM 10000 can speed development of drugs. C-DAC claims it performs better than wellknown American machines.
ANIMATION: To turn Mammooty into Ambedkar, a single frame needs the manipulation of 10 million pixels.With PARAM the speed to do so will only be limited by the number of processors available.
Besides, it will help in distance education, enabling engineering students to log on from anywhere in the country. It will modernise power lines in Punjab; store and process data for Reserve Bank operations; enable crash analysis for safer cars; and conduct traffic analysis for smoother movement of traffic.