Centre for Development of Advanced Computing

Corporate Presentation
May 2014
C-DAC: Genesis and History
Setup in 1988 with the mission to build indigenous
supercomputing capability.
Started building Indian Language Computing technologies
solutions in parallel.
Subsequently added Education & Training activities to its
portfolio.
In 2002, ER&DCI (Electronics Research & Development Centre,
India), NCST (National Centre for Software
Technology) and CEDTI (Centre for Electronics Design and
Technology, India) were merged with C-DAC.
With this, several new domains got added to C-DACs spectrum
of activities such as Professional Electronics, Health Informatics,
Cyber Security, Cyber Forensics, e-Governance, etc.

C-DAC
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is the premier R&D
organization of the Department of Electronics and Information Technology
(DeitY), Ministry of Communications & Information Technology (MCIT) for
carrying out R&D in IT, Electronics and associated areas

Established in 1988, spread over 11 cities about 3000 employees

Eleven Centres
Organisation Structure
Governing Council
Technical Advisory Committee

Coordination Committee
Noida

Mohall

Pune

Kolkata

Thiruvananthapuram

Mumbai

Hyderabad

New Delhi

Bangalore

Chennai

Management Board

Corporate Office

Director General

F & A Committee
Silchar

Vision
To emerge as the premier R&D Institution for the
design, development and deployment of world class
electronic and IT solutions for economic and human
advancement.
Thematic Areas
High Performance Computing and Grid Computing
Multilingual Computing & Heritage Computing
Professional Electronics, including VLSI and
Embedded Systems
Software Technologies, including FOSS
Cyber Security & Cyber Forensics
Health Informatics
Education & Training
HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC)
&
GRID COMPUTING
Mission:
To provide leadership in HPC technologies and promote HPC as a problem
solving tool in cutting edge research for Science & Engineering and Grand
Challenge Problems.
Evolution of PARAM Supercomputers
1991
1994
1998
2013
PARAM Padma
Power Series
PARAM 10000
Solaris
PARAM 9000
Intel
Garuda Grid Computing
Computing with
participatory approach
2005
PARAM YUVA
Intel Multi-core
2008
PARAM 8000
Transputer
PARAM YUVA II
Hybrid Arch
529.74 TF
54 TF
2002
GARUDA
1 GF
2 GF
100 GF
1 TF
HPC, Grid & Cloud Computing
C-DAC's PARAM YUVA-II:

Indias fastest and the first supercomputer to
cross 500 TeraFlops peak performance

Ranked No. 44 in the Green500 list of World's
Supercomputers announced in November
2013. It is the No. 1 system in India and No. 9 in
Asia Pacific as per this list

Bio Blaze: an exclusive Supercomputer for
Bioinformatics research for better diagnosis of
diseases and discovery of new drugs

Meghdoot Cloud Stack: A free and open source
cloud stack




National HPC Facilities
Biocrome System Biogene
Bioinformatics Resources & Applications Facility (BRAF), Pune

NPSF @ Pune
CTSF @ Bangalore
Grid GARUDA
Connects geographically distributed HPC
Resources of the Nation
HPC Resources include HPC Systems,
Storage, I/O devices, Instruments &
sensors
Has more than 70 partners from
Academic & Research Institutions
spread across more than 25 cities of the
country
Indian Grid Certifying Authority: Enables
all Indian Grids to be securely connected
to other Grids
Applications of GARUDA include Open
Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) and
Virtual Science Laboratory
MULTILINGUAL COMPUTING
&
HERITAGE COMPUTING

Mission:
Dissolving Language Barriers to place the power of computing and
e-contents in the hands of the people of India.
National Rollout Plan: CDs for 22 languages released for Indian
Language Tools and Technologies
MANTRA-Rajbhasha (MAchiNe assisted TRAnslation tool):
translates English text into Hindi in a specified domain
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) for Indian Languages and
OHWR (Online Handwritten Recognition over tablets and
smart phones
Shruti Drishti: Computer Aided Text-to-Speech and Text-to-
Braille System for Visually Impaired
ShrutlekhanRajbhasha: Designed to assist various
departments and ministries to create quick and effective
standard Hindi translations of English documents.
Indian Language Keyboard Driver for Android Platform
JATAN: Virtual Museum Builder being used by National
Museums
Multilingual Computing and Heritage Computing
IDN for .in registry: Enablement of "." top level
International Domain for 8 languages viz. Hindi, Marathi, Sindhi,
Nepali, Maithili, Bodo, Dogri and Konkani
PROFESSIONAL ELECTRONICS
INCLUDING VLSI
& EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
Mission:
Design, development and deployment of globally competitive Professional
Electronics products for industrial development and Social Empowerment.
WiTRAC - Wireless Traffic Controller : Vehicle actuated road
traffic controller that controls the signal lamps over wireless
medium

TARANG: Digital Programmable Hearing Aid and
ABC Analyzer: Automatic Bio-Chemistry Analyzer

Power Distribution Automation System (PDAS): Reduction of
outages, reduction of losses in the system, improved voltage
profile and improved safety.
ENOVISION Integrated electronic nose (E-Nose) and vision
(E-Vision) system for quality monitoring of tea and
E-Tongue taste characterization of black tea
Hazardous Object Removal System: Remotely controlled
mobile robotic device to pick an object of suspicion
TETRA Technology Baseband Solutions: Adapting TETRA
technology for various Applications like disaster management,
distress call response management systems and Professional
mobile radio applications
Professional Electronics including VLSI and Embedded Systems
E-Nose
Tetra Product / Technology
Digital Programmable
Hearing Aid
ABC Analyzer
SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES
INCLUDING FOSS
Mission:
Foster an eco-system for Open Source, Open Standards and Open
Systems in India, integrating and benefiting the efforts and needs of all
stake holders.
BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solutions): GNU/Linux based
operating system with wide Indian language support
Mobile Seva: 992 Government Departments/Agencies
Integrated
NSDG (National e-Governance Service Delivery Gateway): A
standards based middleware for achieving secure messaging
and interoperability across departmental applications
InDG (Indian Development Gateway): Through Vikaspedia,
facilitates rural development through provision of relevant
information, products and services in local languages
Online Management and Monitoring System (OMMS):
GRIMMS (GIS-enabled Road Information Management and
Monitoring System) for PMGSY (Pradhan Manthri Gram Sadak
Yojana
Software Technologies including FOSS
ePSS - Electronic Personal Safety system for women safety
CYBER SECURITY
&
CYBER FORENSICS
Mission:
Continuous research and development in Frontier areas of Cyber Security
& Cyber Forensics and thereby achieving self-reliance in the technology;
Indigenous development of Hardware and Software tools for Cyber
Security and Cyber Forensics.
CyberCheck Suite: Data imaging, recovery, analysis, carving
and extraction tools
NetForce Suite: Network session analyser, log analyser and
email tracer
USB Pratirodh : End point USB mass storage device control
solution
Malware Resist: Heuristics-based malware detection
solution
Malware Nivarak: Application behaviour whitelisting
solution
Bharatiya AFIS Suite Automated biometric fingerprint
identification system Bharatiya IRIS identity solution using
iris

DARPAN Network Management Solution and Guard Your
Network Network Intrusion Detection & Prevention
Appliance

Cyber Security and Cyber Forensics
COPS Defender Smart grid and SCADA security
HEALTH INFORMATICS
Mission:
Effective use of ICT to improve the overall healthcare delivery system for
providing better healthcare services to the masses.
Mercury
TM
: Comprehensive EHR/EMR and Telemedicine
Solution
e-Sushrut: Hospital Management Information System
TEJHAS: EMR System for Oncology
AyuSoft: Radical Ayurvedic Solutions for Health & Treatment
Advice
eSanjeevani: Web based Telemedicine Solution
SANJEEVANI: Mobile Tele Oncology Unit

Medical Informatics Software Development Kit for DICOM
and Medical informatics Software Development Kit for HL-7

iCare@Home Integrative healthcare informatics solution
Health Informatics
MOSQUIT - Disease Surveillance system for Malaria using
mobile platform
EDUCATION & TRAINING
Mission:
To create skilled manpower in the country by providing quality training
programmes in the field of Electronics and ICT technologies.
Formal Education Programmes
Corporate Training Programmes
International Training Programmes
Skill Development Initiatives
Training Programmes for Women Empowerment,
SC/ST students and Minority Community students
Special training programmes for North East states
Technologies for Education & Training








Focus Areas
Joint Research & Development in the areas of
Open Source with KACST, Saudi Arabia
Education & Training with various countries Armenia, Syria, Grenada, Belarus
HPC with Vietnam, Russian Academy of Sciences(ICADRAS, Mascow) and
Colorado, USA
Bioinformatics with Oregon Health & Science University
Digital Preservation with University of British Columbia, Canada
Association in Europe
CHAIN-REDS - Grid Computing - European Commission (DG CONNECT)s FP7
project facilitating research groups and even single researchers to access and
efficiently use worldwide distributed resources (i.e., computing, storage, data,
services, tools, applications)
Bioinformatics - Pirbright Institute, UK and University of Surrey, UK
International Research Collaboration
Tajikistan
Uzbekistan
Dominican
Republic
Ghana
Seychelles
Myanmar
Cambodia
Tanzania
Turkmenistan
Lesotho
Belarus Saudi Arabia Vietnam
Armenia
Syria
Grenada
International Presence in Education & Training
UPLIFTMENT OF
NORTH-EAST REGION
Mission:
To use Electronics, Information & Communication Technologies for the upliftment of
North-East region in line with the policy of the Government of India.
Some Initiatives for North-East Upliftment
Model e-Villages in North East
Intelligent Advisory System for
farmers
Flood Response System
Glacial Lake Management
Information System

IT Based CAD centres at North East States
Electronic Nose and Vision System for tea industry
Spatial Decision Support System for Forest Management
Early warning system for dissemination of Scientific data to publicize
hazard related information on real time basis
Model e-Villages
RECENT AWARDS

INDIA GEOSPATIAL EXCELLENCE AWARD 2014
C-DAC, Pune was conferred the India Geospatial Award 2014 by
India Geospatial Forum at HICC (Hyderabad International
Convention Centre), Hyderabad on February 5, 2014.
EFY Awards 2013
C-DAC, ACTS has bagged the EFY Award 2013 as the 'Most Popular
Training Institute' for electronics at the EFY awards ceremony held
at Bengaluru in March, 2014
CSI Nihilent e-Governance Award 2013
C-DAC Noida was awarded the CSI-Nihilent e-Governance award for
implementing Megh Sushrut - a cloud based health management information
system in Rajasthan

The award was presented on December 14, 2013 at Visakhapatnam by Shri J.
Satyanarayana, Secretary (DeitY), Government of India and Professor S.V.
Raghavan, National President CSI & Scientific Secretary to Principal Scientific
Advisor, Government of India
e-North East Award 2013
C-DAC Kolkata received the e-North East award 2013 for
deployment of health care knowledge system in the North-East
states for promoting public health awareness and education
SKOCH Smart Governance Award
- For MoSQuIT (Mobile
based Surveillance
Quest using Information
Technology) under the
category of Smart
Governance

- Presented by Mr.
Nandan Nilekani, an
Indian entrepreneur and
the chairman of the
UIDAI on September 03,
2013
Manthan Award 2013
Onama of C-DAC, Pune received the award under e-Science and
Technology category

Mobile Tele-Ophthalmology Units of C-DAC, Thiruvananthapuram received
the award under e-Health category

e-safeT of C-DAC, Noida received the award under e-Science and
Technology category

Multilingual Multimedia tool for mitigating code of conduct cases at
Election Commission of C-DAC, Noida received the award under E-Inclusion
and Localisation category
Disease Surveillance system for Malaria using mobiles of C-DAC
Pune received the award under m-Health category
Mobile Seva of C-DAC Mumbai received the award under
m-Governance category
mBillionth Award South Asia 2013
NEW INITIATIVES
National Supercomputing Mission (NSM)
To make India one of the world leaders in supercomputing and to
enhance Indias capability in solving grand challenge problems of
national and global relevance
To empower our scientists and researchers with state-of-the-art
supercomputing facilities and enable them to carry out cutting-edge
research in their respective domains
To avoid redundancies, duplication of efforts, and optimize investments
in supercomputing
To attain global competitiveness and ensure self-reliance in the
strategic area of supercomputing technology

New initiatives
India Microprocessor Project (IMP)
Study and comparison of different microprocessors available worldwide
and evolve specifications of a microprocessor which can be used as a
workhorse for strategic Indian applications
Study the various issues involved with respect to potential IP violations of
existing designs
To prepare a detailed report with effort and resource optimisation for this
landmark activity leading to the India Microprocessor
Aakash
Comprehensive testing of Aakash tablet for functionality, compatibility,
environment and endurance
Quality assurance of Aakash for design engineering & manufacturing angle
Electronic Personal Safety System (EPSS)
Electronic Personal Safety Ecosystem and Device for distressed persons
A high-volume hardware consumer product for manufacture by ESDM
industry










New initiatives Continued
May 29, 2014
THANK YOU