Centre for Development of Advanced Computing Current Affairs, GK & News

Registration of Overseas Voters

Sushil Chandra, India’s Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) has urged the members of the Indian Community who are staying abroad to register as Overseas Voters. The extension of the Electronically Transmitted Postal Ballot System (ETPBS) facility to the overseas Indian voters is also being contemplated. Overview: A delegation that was led by the CEC visited Mauritius ..

Month: Current Affairs - April, 2022

Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs • India Nation & States Current Affairs

Topics: Centre for Development of Advanced Computing • Chief Election Commissioner • Electronically Transmitted Postal Ballot System • Non-Resident Indian • Overseas Voters • Sushil Chandra

Chips to Start-up (C2S) Programme

Under “Chip to Start-up (C2S) Programme”, central government is seeking application from 100 start-ups, MSMEs, R&D organisations and academia to train 85,000 engineers in very-large-scale integration (VLSI) and embedded system design areas. Chip to Start-up (C2S) Programme The C2S programme will result in development of 175 ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits), IP core repository and working ..

Month: Current Affairs - January, 2022

Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs - 2022 • Government Schemes Current Affairs

Topics: Centre for Development of Advanced Computing • Chips to Start-up (C2S) Programme • Chips to Startup website • Scheme for Semiconductor • UPSC

India to Build 60 Supercomputers

The Department of Science and Technology has announced the plans to build 60 supercomputers over the next three years. The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) will be responsible for the implementation of the project and six machines are expected to be installed by the end of the year. Supercomputers A supercomputer is one that ..

Topics: Centre for Development of Advanced Computing • Computing • Concurrent computing • Digital technology • FLOPS • Information technology in India • K computer • Parallel computing • PARAM • Supercomputers • Supercomputing • Supercomputing in India

IIT Kharagpur signs pact with C-DAC to build India’s first state-of-the-art 1.3 PetaFlop High-Performance Computing facility

The IIT Kharagpur has signed a MoU with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) to set up India’s first state-of-the-art 1.3 PetaFlop high performance computing facility and data center funded under the National Supercomputing Mission. PetaFlop is the measurement of computing power based on the frequency of mathematical calculations that can be done per ..

Topics: Centre for Development of Advanced Computing • Computer architecture • Computing • Concurrent computing • Digital technology • Distributed computing architecture • Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur • Supercomputer

IIT Kharagpur Inks MoU for High Performance Computing Facility & Data Center

IIT Kharagpur has signed an MoU with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) to set up a 1.3 Petaflop high-performance computing facility and data centre funded under the National Supercomputing Mission. The new supercomputing system would be used for specific challenge domains like cryptography, chemistry, molecular dynamics, drug discovery, artificial intelligence and data sciences ..

Month: Current Affairs - March, 2019

Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs

Topics: C-DAC • Centre for Development of Advanced Computing • Department of Electronics and Information Technology • Department of Science and Technology • IIT Kharagpur • national supercomputing mission • PetaFlop

Jatan and Darshak

Centre for Development for Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune, has developed a software named “Jatan” that is set to revolutionise museum experience. The objective was to make a digital imprint of all the objects preserved in museums. It will help researchers, curators and also people interested in the field. C-DAC also developed Darshak is  a mobile-based ..

Topics: Centre for Development of Advanced Computing • India • Museum • National Portal and Digital Repository for Museums of India • Pune • QR code • States and union territories of India