Centre For Development Of Advanced Computing:
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is working on the country’s first indigenously designed and developed family of microprocessors.
- Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is the apex research and development wing of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
- It was established in the year 1988.
- Its main purpose was to carry out research and development in Electronics, IT and other associated areas.
- It was setup to build Supercomputers in context of denial of import of Supercomputers by USA.
- C-DAC build India’s first indigenously built supercomputer Param 8000 in 1991.
- Param 8000 is India’s first supercomputer ,was developed by C-DAC in 1991.
