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Prof. V Rajaraman - My Reminiscences of SERC Formation
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people
Ajit Singh Ashok Chandra Dr .S. Namperumal Dr. Mathai Joseph Dr. N. Balakrishnan Dr. N. Seshagiri Dr. R. K. Gupta Dr. S. Ramani Dr. Y. K. Sharma Indira Gandhi M. N. Muralidharan P. K. Singh Prof. Arvind Prof. B. Nag Prof. C. N. R. Rao Prof. C. S. Jha Prof. De Prettre Prof. E. S. Rajagopal Prof. Patrick De Wilde Prof. Peyton Jones Prof. R. S. Nikhil Prof. Roddam Narasimha Prof. S. Ramakrishna Prof. S. Ramaseshan Prof. Satish Dhawan Prof.Gary Lindstrom Prof.M. N. Srinivasan R. Krishnamurthy Rajat Moona S. Chandrasekhar S. K. Ghoshal S. K. Nandy S. Ramani Shashi Ullal
places
Bangalore Bengaluru Bombay Gainesville Japan Kanpur London Minneapolis Mumbai New Delhi Tokyo UK USA Utah
organisations
CDC CMC CSIL Central Scientific Instrumentation Laboratory Computer Maintenance Corporation Control Data Corporation DEC DOE DST Department of Electronics Department of Instrumentation and Applied Physics Department of Science and Technology Digital Equipment Corporation Electronics Commission Fujitsu Glasgow University, UK Government of India Government of United States of America HAL Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. IBM IISc IIT IIT Bombay IIT Kanpur ISRO Imperial College, London Indian Institute of Science Indian Space Research Organization International Business Machines MECON Metallurgical Engineering Consultants Ministry of External Affairs Ministry of Human Resource Development RRI Raman Research Institute SERC School of Automation, IISc Supercomputer Education Research Centre TIFR Tata Institute of Fundamental Research University of Minnesota University of Utah
year:
1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
TECHNICAL AND OTHER TERMS
1 Vector Processor 2 Gigaflops peak speed 2.5 Mega words main memory 20 Scientific officers 20 faculty members 50 Hz controlled frequency supply 512 Kilo words main memory 512 Mega words main memory 800 MB disk BASIC Building and infrastructure cost - Rs.6 crores CDC 205 supercomputer CDC 4360 mini computers CDC NET CDC computers CRAY YMP 132 Supercomputer Computational Science Computer Science Computer algorithms Computer center Cost of front end computer, high end graphics, and workstations - USD 5 million Cost of supercomputer - USD 10 million Cray XMP computer Cyber 990E computer Cyber Plus computer DEC 1090 computer FORTRAN 77 FORTRAN compiler I GB disk Interactive terminals LISP NEC SX1E National Supercomputing Centre PARAM PASCAL PCB PROLOG Printed Circuit Board Remote terminals TCP/IP network software Transistorized scientific calculator VAX 8810-8250