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Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)

34th Foundation Day of C-DAC.

On the occasion of 34th foundation day, three novel innovative technologies – Cyber Security Operation Centre (CSoC) as a service and C-DAC’s indigenous High-Performance Computing software solutions – Parallel Development Environment (ParaDE) and Automatic Parallelizing Compiler (CAPC) were launched by C-DAC.

Another App based system called MANAS, Mental health And Normalcy Augmentation System is also being earmarked separately by the Principal Scientific Advisor to Govt. of India.

◆ MANAS is a comprehensive, scalable, national digital wellbeing platform to augment mental well-being of Indian citizens and aimed to ‘reach the unreached’ through Digital India initiatives.

About C-DAC:

◆ C-DAC is the premier R&D organization of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) for carrying out R&D in IT, Electronics and associated areas.

◆ The setting up of C-DAC in 1988 itself was to build supercomputers in the context of the denial of import of supercomputers by the USA.

◆ Since then, C-DAC has been undertaking building of multiple generations of supercomputers starting from PARAM with 1 GF in 1988.

◆ Today, C-DAC is working towards strengthening national technological capabilities in the context of global developments in the field and responding to changes in the market need in selected foundation areas.

Its products and services cover the following domains:

◆ High Performance, Grid and Cloud Computing (HGCC)

◆ Multilingual Computing & Heritage Computing

◆ Professional Electronics, VLSI & Embedded Systems

◆ Software Technologies including FOSS

◆ Cybersecurity

◆ Health Informatics

◆ Education and Training

Services: (Most Important)

◆ e-Hastakshar: On-Line Digital Signing Service

◆ e-Pramaan: A National

◆ e-Authentication Service

◆ Mobile Seva: Citizen Services on Mobile Phones

◆ Cyber Forensic Analysis, Training and Laboratory Development

◆ e-Raktkosh: National Portal for Blood Bank Management System

◆ e-Aushadhi: National Drugs and Vaccine Distributed Management System

◆ Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing (VAPT): Security Audit/Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing

◆ Data Centre Services

◆ Process Automation for Competitive Examinations (PACE)

◆ OBjective Responses Image based Capture (OBRIC): web-based system for processing of objective type tests conducted using specially designed answer sheets.

With a corporate office in Pune, C-DAC has centres in several Indian cities.


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